Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.
I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.
RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Cloud computing is the real endgame. The big tech bros want to price consumers out of the PC hardware market (GPUs, RAM, NVMe, etc.) so they can offer a cloud solution via subscription model.
E.g.: sdxcentral.com/…/jeff-bezos-wants-you-to-rent-clo…
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Annoying bastard. As if destroying mom-and-pop stores and malls weren’t enough.
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These Chinese are catching up very quickly on GPUs, RAM, etc.
This would be a massive own goal for the existing incumbents.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 day ago
If the end game is cloud, they will tariff the shit out of these. For exemple i bought slimeVR hard ware, from Europe 280€, from china (190€ + tarif 66€) from China coming from US 240€
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, luckily in Australia, we are getting Chinese stuff without massive tariffs.
I see BYD cars everywhere.
ChristerMLB@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I don’t know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there’s not much of a market for high-end gaming PCs