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?

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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