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Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by amluto on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:42PM (#45336888)
On the bright side, if lots of power capacity is added and most of the GPUs end up idle, then there might be cheap power available for other uses.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by jazzyjackson on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:46PM (#45336941)
Power generation is not a monolithic enterprise. If more supply is built than needed, certain suppliers will go bankrupt.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by ogaj on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:03PM (#45337196)
They may, but that doesn’t mean that the capacity disappears. It may require some assumptions about USG willingness to backstop an acquisition but it’s not a significant leap to think that the generation capacity remains in (more capable?) hands.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by mcny on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:37PM (#45337638)
Speaking of capacity, what happened to all the "dark fiber" that was supposedly built for Internet 2 or whatever? The fiber doesn't go away just because a bubble burst, right?
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by HPsquared on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:06PM (#45338004)
Railways are similar, many were built by investors who lost all their investment but the railway is still there.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by lucianbr on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:01PM (#45337182)
What are the chances suppliers will go bankrupt but the plants get sold and still produce power?
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by NewJazz on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:00PM (#45337163)
Not if Ellison trickles it out for maximum profit.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by holoduke on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:45PM (#45336916)
And computing in general gets cheaper.
Re:OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Partnership to Deploy 10GW of ... by lawlessone on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:49PM (#45336970)
heating our homes next winter with clusters of h100s