Post #4146376
2026-07-27 19:03 UTC
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
The dotcom bubble at least have us some lasting infrastructure. Much of the fiber the "regular" ISPs (not MAANG) operate on are legacy from the hyped up build-out of the dotcom bubble.
The AI hyperscaler data centers OTOH: Their "G"PUs are worthless for anything else other than super-low precision sparse matrix multiplication. Can't even use them for low stakes DSP.
The networking stuff might have some aftermarket use.
But the rest? e-waste.
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-07-27 19:10
@datenwolf@chaos.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I know this is going to be met with protest: but that's again assuming AI will disappear. And frankly even if you don't like chatbots, TPUs have been around as far back as 2009, backing everything from modern weather prediction to video encoding/decoding. I mean, you might not be gaming on them any time soon, but they will definitely find their use, and you are likely already using every day things that are run on them, even if you don't use chatbots.