Imagine how cheap it will be once over supply inevitably occurs.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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I am salivating over A100/H100 rigs getting dumped en masse. I’ll take one, thanks.
I hope they don’t just toss them in the garbage, like jerks. Last time this happened with crypto, I think Nvidia bought many back to throw away.
Did GPUs become cheap after the previous hype/bubble simmered down? No, they made even bigger bubble requiring even more resources. They will make it even bigger until it requires toilet paper to sustain, then people will riot.
In my time I've certainly seen RAM prices rise and fall depending on supply constraints, same with HDD and SSD. Fair point on GPU's, I just can't see this data center demand remaining as so much of it seems speculative.
Did GPUs become cheap after the previous hype/bubble simmered down? No
I my current GPU in my gaming PC I got on a big discount, around when folks couldn't really do bitcoin mining on consumer hardware anymore, so... yes?
Fuck capitalism
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm thinking this generation of AI is going to be a rug pull, and all of these companies will be "too big to fail" and they'll make a fortune as the consumers and taxpayers carry the cost.
Sounds about right, history is a circle
Butlerian Jihad when?
That haven't yet happened
People are going to eat this shit up for sure. At least the corporate companies will. They don't know better.
Even better, they might not even be selling all the ones they’ve already made: https://unusualwhales.com/news/burry-demands-proof-of-warehoused-nvidia-gpus-ai-bubble-warning-hits-hard
One nitpick: of course the GPUs that don't have RAM yet wouldn't be installed in data centers, irrespective of the existence of those data centers.
The rest of it works: you can have holds on existing RAM/GPUs for buildings that aren't built yet.
This is more capitalism being dumb with all that speculation :P (But then again, most of issues around LLMs come from that they are being developed and used in a capitalist system.)
But how else can we break the 1000KG barrier for obese hang-gliding enthusiasts? Or grannies taunting gorillas?
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