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If the "AI bubble" bursts what will datacentres do with all their RAM?

sexually_inactive said:
Will they sell it off for pennies?
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Probably not. The AI bubble doesn't really make sense to me. This isn't like crypto mining or NFTs. Hell, it's nothing like the housing market crash. AI, unfortunately, is an invaluable tool that could turn asset. Even if it blows up in their faces (as a money maker) they can still use the data centers. Even turn to more lucrative measures (war).
 
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Jayinem said:
There will be no AI bubble burst, the Government would just bail them out if it happened.
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Potential bubbles aren't prevented by bailouts, at best delayed (see also the 2007-2008 housing crisis).

To my knowledge, the used memory isn't the kind you just plug in your regular PC, so the lowered cost of ram will be because the current kind no longer clogs up production chains.

But that is about stopping building NEW data centers. If I had to guess, the current ones would hold on to it and sell their computing powers more specific.
 
Jayinem said:
There are countries that have AI drones as police, probably coming to America one day. I'm afraid our future is going to be very bleak unless these assholes just abandoned their plans

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The British police are going to have what they call "AI Police" honestly, they're such incompetent morons that AI might do a better job than them.
 
Likely a similar outcome to the gpu atrocity with the mining a few years ago: lots of cheap, burned-out ram.
 
It's ECC so it won't work in your home computer. Most of it will get dumpstered, if they are responsible sent to recycling, which will end up in a third world country where they will hazardously melt the gold out and re-sell.
 
Jayinem said:
There will be no AI bubble burst, the Government would just bail them out if it happened.
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This^
Preventing bubble bursts has been what the government has been doing since the .com bubble burst. We need an actual system crash for shit to get better
 
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I guess that in the case of a downfall of AI where the datacentres has to be closed, they will sell the whole centre or at least their computers (or components) to other kind of datacentres...

Lots of those computers won't be used for anything at all, so it will probably be sold to different companies that could make use of the spare parts for the low cost, but even so, many components as RAM will be sold to companies that sells them to people, probably in Aliexpress or Ebay, but most won't be any usable for you, ECC RAM, server motherboards and CPUs that require them... Not to talk about hard drives, they will all be disposed. But good news are that it is known that some servers use regular RAM emulating ECC RAM with Linux, that will be something you could use! But for the high demand it will have, I don't think it will be that cheap...

However, new components won't be sold to those datacentres anymore and many companies made so much money with this bubble that it will be a really good and huge change for the market of new components.
 
Ai bubble isn't going to burst, corporations and govs will make sure of it. Corporations want to replace everyone's job with an ai. Govs want to use it for surveillance, and war. Way too many countries are invested into this shit to let it burst. Even if it somehow "burst" in the US and the west, China would still keep it alive.
 
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