Reminder: there are no video outputs on these chatbot data center processors driving up the prices of graphics cards.
So they can’t even sell as used GPUs to crash the consumer GPU price market when the AI bubble pops.
This is a reminder that businesses aren’t “money focused calculation machines that optimize for the maximum possible profit.” They don’t worry about every little dollar, they just print money and use it to control you.
Raising prices for you is the goal, not a byproduct of some other smarter plan.
Some people don’t need the rest of this post, and it’s very long, so I’ll put it in a comment.
It’s a false assumption that AI bubble popping means we suddenly stop using AI and all these data centres will be running idle.
We didn’t stop using the internet when the dotcom bubble burst either.
AI bubble is about companies being overvalued. Not about the underlaying technology being worthless. The bubble popping means these valuations get adjusted to more reasonable levels. Some companies will go under but not all of them and almost definitely not the big ones.
A small one would still be plenty of GPU
And the big ones could still need to liquidate old stuff when it starts using too much power compared to newer stuff, even if it still works (though someone in this thread claimed data centers burn through GPUs too fast)
Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.