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The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. (archive.is)
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[–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

Can confirm: There's a lot of money in machine room planning, setup, and building-out right now. If you have experience with electrical, cooling (water or forced air), cabling, and rackmount machine installation and sysadmin stuff, you'll make good money.

Also: When this shit crashes (and it will), used memory and GPUs will flood the market for cheap. Then it'll be time to buy. Lol

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think a lot of gear will be server/AI specific and won't run in peoples home computers. GPUs with no graphics driver support, no video output etc. Some memory finding itself into HBM modules instead of DDR5. I wouldn't be surprised if they have an agreement with the semiconductor cartels to crush it all so it doesn't land in the consumer market.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Yeah probably, but I think consumer hacks slash microchip companies might buy them and retrofit them to be GPU's. If most of them are not just sold to the public, I suspect that nVIDIA et al might buy them back from business customers, and then modify them to re-sell to consumers.

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