2025-12-28 21:36 UTC
@troberts@theblower.au
My prediction would be that the managers will compartmentalise it and separate the financial crash from the supposed utility of AI itself. Indeed, with money being tighter, they will reduce staffing levels and expect the remaining people to use AI to retain overall productivity.
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@bradsaillard@mastodon.social 2025-12-28 21:50
@troberts@theblower.au Footnote: I have been thinking for some time that Google/Alphabet are waiting for the crash to buy up all the unwanted data centre capacity and further entrench their dominance, as they did with dark fibre. Perhaps they will have competition from Amazon and Microsoft this time though. I can’t be bothered to investigate which of them has a war chest available for this purpose, but holding back a significant sum would be an indication I believe.
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@bradsaillard@mastodon.social 2025-12-28 21:51
@troberts@theblower.au Or perhaps they will direct funding already declared to be for “AI” investments to generic compute infrastructure.