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?

  • flamingo_pinyata
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    3 days ago

    Some will continue working just drop the compute price by a lot. Others will be mothballed for a while until someone can figure out how to run them profitably.

    Expect a lot of new (or even resurrected old) use cases to pop up. For example I expect cloud gaming to make a huge comeback driven by cheaper prices. Us mortals won’t be able to afford our own GPUs for a while, but there will suddenly be a surplus of data center units for rent.