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You guys think it will be together with the "AI" bubble or that it will independently pop sooner? Because all of the prices currently are inflated deliberately using artificial scarcity and preying on FOMO.

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[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

it probably wont pop in the way a lot of online commenters are predicting. big companies like google, microsoft, apple, amazon, etc will be fine. a bunch of startups and small-mid sized companies will go under. a few big ones will get bought by bigger ones.

even without ai they're going to need more datacenters. there's a lot you can do with a shitton of compute beyond generating questionable ai-slop.