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?
They will just turn all the empty space inside into detention centers and keep all of us locked up.
Spirit Halloween gonna have some massive sales.
Get ready for the 2040 internet trend “spending the night in an abandoned data center”
Horror movie idea: The Rackrooms
The Racks
Has a good double entendre for horror
If they’re already operational when that happens, likely sold off to cloud hyper scalers on the cheap. That or they’ll be turned into warehouses.
Nothing half done will just be abandoned and the land sold.
The ones being built or planned to be built will have to be sold off.
Probably not abadndoned, but land owner changing several hands in what is essentially someone buying a vacant lot. Maybe a handful will reuse any existing building already made, but most will be used for something new.
The existing ones will start their fight to the lowest market price which will probably cause many to either sell to a different cloud provider or change hardware to something more profitable.
None of the electronic hardware will go to waste because there will always be a demand for it, even if they sell it off at a loss. But any permanent fixtures like industrial cabling, ventilation, piping, etc probably will be wasted.
There’s still no guarantee on whether it’ll implode or just slowly deflate though. The natural assumption would be that the post IPO pricing will completely wreck sales and value, but they could easily move to an enterprise vendor lock scenario where they can charge whatever they want due to tech stack deals like how MSFT runs teams.
Remember, they’ll do anything in their power to keep the pumping going, even if it involves tax bailouts.
Hire funny wood it be if they tried to get a tax bail out and Trump approved it but he actually can’t do it since there’s no money left to bail them out
A boom in local AI as people buy the crazy expensive video cards for pennies on the dollar for home usage?
Press X to doubt
Yeah, these cards will most likely be in pieces rather than reused by people.
It’s also just that local AI is not worth the time and energy unless you’re a prick with too much money and incoherent ideology
Incoherent ideology ?
There’s a few people who are like:
- AI bad, cause environmental, capitalism, and training data being based on spyware
- but if I run local AI, those magically all stop being true, because I think it hard enough
Ah, yeah, I’ve seen that.
There are also people who want to run locally for other reasons as well.
Privacy being a big one, but there are others.
I’m not sure what the ratios are though.
Wouldn’t that be an inconsistent ideology?
Same thing
I think that means a dictator with a speech impediment.
I like the joke
Those gpu’s are not useful as video cards.
I said for local AI, I didnt say for gaming.
As long as you want a high wattage server running the electric bill up.
All this hardware is essentially worthless other than AI
Hopefully, for the CEOs and people who made them happen,
I’d argue that “burning the guillotine” can happen after it makes its comeback, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing
Cheap datacenters for sale to the surviving AI companies. It’s not like all things AI will disappear just because the bubble pops.
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LAN Party!My doom scenario: They will become low security prisons/manufacturing factories.
Or Company Housing to go along with the Company Store where you will always be short 1 Company Buck to buy that half loaf of day old white bread…same thing, really.Socialize the losses.
They will stop pretending they’re data centers and we will start calling them what they really are, surveillance centers
Hopefully the used storage would flood the market and drive down prices.
I think thats wishful thinking. I don’t think that most of what goes in a modern datacenter has much use outside of a datacenter.
Nah, they’re gonna try to recoup their loss. Ram, processors, and graphics cards have value outside of a data center. As long as there is money to be made, the hardware will be sold
The GPUs they’re using don’t have video output, take the energy of a furnace and are fanless (rely on the high air flow of a very noisy server rack). And they’re not using a standard pcie connector.
The CPUs are the same, big like a smartphone, require a massive cooler and a massive motherboard
Motherboards are difficult to repurpose as they require two massive processors
RAM is registered ecc and thanks to Intel almost no consumer hardware supports that.
SSDs maybe we can buy a cheap pcie adapter on AliExpress, but the data lines on a consumer processor are not too many so you can realistically put 1-2 in your PC, not dozens like the old SAS server drives. And also they’re toasty as they assume the case is giving high air flow
Learned something today. We are truly in the darkest timeline
If they’re abandoned, they could be filled with storage containers, and people could live in them. I hear access to water and electricity is already set up.
You vastly underestimate the price of the machines. Data centers might change hands but they will always exist because the machines need a building regardless of what happens
