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stego-techyesterday at 5:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

Unlikely, for a few reasons:

* The GPUs in use in data centers typically aren’t built for consumer workloads, power systems, or enclosures.

* Data Centers often shred their hardware for security purposes, to ensure any residual data is definitively destroyed

* Tax incentives and corporate structures make it cheaper/more profitable to write-off the kit entirely via disposal than attempt to sell it after the fact or run it at a discount to recoup some costs

* The Hyperscalers will have use for the kit inside even if AI goes bust, especially the CPUs, memory, and storage for added capacity

That’s my read, anyway. They learned a lot from the telecoms crash and adjusted business models accordingly to protect themselves in the event of a bubble crash.

We will not benefit from this failure, but they will benefit regardless of its success.