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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by gessha on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:25AM (#50313200)
Once the bubble bursts we can finally sweep up the datacenter GPUs and jerry rig them to our home servers!
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by Avicebron on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:26AM (#50313208)
I literally can't wait.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by __m on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:56AM (#50313333)
They will probably go to other data centers or company premises.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by dawnerd on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:08AM (#50313610)
Maybe at first, but server hardware doesn't stay deployed tooo long and ends up liquidated. That was always a looming problem with this rapid buildout. Some hosts like OVH or Hetzner might swipe up some second hand gear, they're not afraid of renting old hardware. But eBay will be flooded once the DCs upgrade / downscale. And it wont be cheap at first either I bet. Everyone will try to cash in on the secondary market hype.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by tehlike on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:51AM (#50313300)
After you upgrade your electric panel and cooling.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by ssl-3 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:03AM (#50313365)
Winter is coming.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by kylehotchkiss on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:28AM (#50313451)
The government will just nationalize them and use all the compute for poorly defined military tasks
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by vrganj on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:42AM (#50313503)
Or to further build out total domestic surveillance, like they've been telegraphing.
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Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target by lostmsu on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:18PM (#50317497)
The top models still require 1T+ of VRAM. Even if prices go down, that's still gonna be very unaffordable.
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