• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Good luck…

    Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

    There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

    The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

    Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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      2 hours ago

      Those GPUs fry themselves in a year or two, and utility prices will put pressure on governments to concept datacenters