More and more mainstream analysts are identifying the coming AI crash, which is a good indication that it will happen soon.
So, what happens to all the data centers? They are already built but probably very expensive to maintain. Will many of them just be abandoned? Bought up by cloud computing companies? Scammers? Crypto miners? Can they be parted out and sold off piecemeal?
Will they be put to some productive use, or just become massive e-waste sites left to the locals to deal with?
Datacenters aren’t only used for AI. They could be used for cloud gaming, or in general for hardware-as-a-service models as a capitalist solution to high hardware prices for consumers.
Or just good old server hosting.
I’ve heard these can’t be repurposed as general servers, but I don’t know enough about it to say if that’s accurate.
Hardware can’t, but the DCs definitely can. Their power and cooling capabilities will be over engineered for what you need but you can combat that by turning off excess capacity. It already has the base of what you need for normal DCs: space, Cooling, power and internet with corresponding redundancies.
I mean, disposable vapes can be repurposed as servers, it’s just a matter of how much compromises you’re willing to make