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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.

I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.

[–] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cloud computing is the real endgame. The big tech bros want to price consumers out of the PC hardware market (GPUs, RAM, NVMe, etc.) so they can offer a cloud solution via subscription model.

E.g.: https://www.sdxcentral.com/control-plane/jeff-bezos-wants-you-to-rent-cloud-space-instead-of-buying-pcs-for-gamers-thats-truly-terrible/

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Bozos

Annoying bastard. As if destroying mom-and-pop stores and malls weren't enough.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I don't know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there's not much of a market for high-end bleeding edge gaming PCs

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These Chinese are catching up very quickly on GPUs, RAM, etc.

This would be a massive own goal for the existing incumbents.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If the end game is cloud, they will tariff the shit out of these. For exemple i bought slimeVR hard ware, from Europe 280€, from china (190€ + tarif 66€) from China coming from US 240€

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, luckily in Australia, we are getting Chinese stuff without massive tariffs.

I see BYD cars everywhere.