alt Hacker NewsGPUs are lasting longer than foreseen, in fact old GPUs are more valuable now (making more money!) than they were three years ago when they were new.
Tokens will continue to increase in price until the supply meets the demand. That's going to take a while.
Are old datacenter GPUs making more money than they were before? Various sources point to GPUs dying quickly (in 2024, a Google engineer suggested 3 years maximum), and even if they don't, newer chips cause rapid depreciation of older ones.[1]
[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g...
[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/ai-gpu-depreciation-coreweav...