▲ 771 ▼ Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user. (techcrunch.com) submitted 1 year ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 176 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children) The electrical industry is going to have a real bad time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) yeah secondary knockon effects - once nvidia realizes it's not going to actually sell 5 gpus per human being, the datacenters for them evaporate, then the power production to feed those datacenters becomes pointless.... an effective administration would mandate all renewable energy for this purpose, so when it implodes they could at least derive a benefit from the expanded production... but no, trump will have them build coal plants for it all. or like grok, methane powered generators fml permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) and they are even considering extremely expensive nuclear plants to power them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I'm dubious about smr's still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) yeah secondary knockon effects - once nvidia realizes it's not going to actually sell 5 gpus per human being, the datacenters for them evaporate, then the power production to feed those datacenters becomes pointless.... an effective administration would mandate all renewable energy for this purpose, so when it implodes they could at least derive a benefit from the expanded production... but no, trump will have them build coal plants for it all. or like grok, methane powered generators fml permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) and they are even considering extremely expensive nuclear plants to power them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I'm dubious about smr's still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) and they are even considering extremely expensive nuclear plants to power them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I'm dubious about smr's still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* bringing old reactors online may end up an overall positive (say, if the ai bubble pops soon but the reactors still come online and displace fossil sources) but I'm dubious about smr's still. it just seems like more chances for radionucleotides to get smeared everywhere if they become ubiquitous. permalink fedilink source parent