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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by whateveracct on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:43PM (#48161727)
> Bust. We've come away with a useful tool but the hundreds of billions of capital expenditure were thrown away on a pipe dream.

heh this is the trick. The tech companies will angle for a bailout and they'll benefit from all this speculative data center building. Compute is generally useful.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by abracadaniel on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:00PM (#48163765)
It’s useful for a while. Hardware has a pretty short useful lifespan. I’ll be curious how the landscape will look in 10 years as it comes time to replace all of these servers. Maybe we’ll extend the lifespan, or usage will continue to grow, or we start shutting down datacenters.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by whateveracct on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:03PM (#48164176)
they're already all extending the lifespan for accounting purposes haha
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