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Can we all buy cheap hardware when the bubble bursts and the billionaires decide not to pay the electricity bills for these ridiculous datacentres?
Unlike with the GPU shortage, where the cryptomining gpus could be used by regular consumers, the datacenter ram and so on is not usable on personal computers. It is all going to be e-waste, and we will still have a shortage after the bubble burst.
While it won't be usable by consumers, lots of businesses will happily scoop up a rack for their own servers. Not only will a ton of demand vanish, but a ton of supply appears at the same time.
is datacenter ram really not usable on personal PC's? I figured it was the same as consumer ram but with ECC features, but I haven't gone out of my way to try and buy any.
They're using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can't use.
It's a different physical interface.
Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards... 🤷♂️
If it's just a physical connector and doesn't require a special CPU, then I could see motherboard makers making that switch if there's a glut of the memory available.
man that sucks.
Well that sucks. I assumed the ram, ssds, hdds could be recycled into useful forms.
It's possible someone would make it usable. A long time ago, I bought a laptop CPU that was soldered onto a board so it would go into a normal desktop socket. Guessing there was a glut of laptop CPUs at the time.
Yeah and the e-waste centers will clean up the hardware and resell it.
It'll be a flood into the market. Supply and demand and all that.
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NoEven if we would get and be able to use any hardwareit would have been ridden hard. Expected remaining lifespan may be low
the AI chips are usable for regular consumers like you or me.