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Datacenters are being built for AI. What happens when you remove the AI workload?

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind when some tech bros burn billions of venture capital & nothing much (?) comes out of it.

But those datacenters embody a lot of resources. Raw materials, complex/resource heavy manufacturing processes for IC's, servers, networking gear, etc etc.

I sure hope that doesn't go to waste when the AI bubble pops. Datacenter stuffed with AI optimized hardware any good for general engineering? Science projects? Weather prediction? Web hosting? ...??

parent RetroTechie 5 months ago

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