Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoI wonder how fast you could run Farcry on one of those AI GPU units.
Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoI wonder how fast you could run Farcry on one of those AI GPU units.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Pretty sure MS will just seize the OpenAi data centers and repurpose them for Azure and rent out compute time or use it for XBox streaming. Non of the hardware will reach the open market.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Regardless of who owns it or what they do with it, those GPUs will get sold on the used market with plenty of life left. Older AI GPUs, networking equipment (eg 100GbE), SAS drives, etc have been easy to find on eBay and other sites for a long time, because data centers replace hardware long before it’s expected to fail.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Exactly. They have like an 8 year depreciation, but they supposedly become obsolete in a couple of years for whatever cutting edge AI is supposed to be.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Even things like HDDs that don’t become “obsolete” in 18-24 months get sold with plenty of life left (unplanned downtime is more expensive than new hardware), but obsolescence makes it happen even sooner.