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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Isn't it Open AI who bought it with Nvidia's money that Nvidia said they'll think about giving them later with the money they'll make from selling their GPUs to data centers that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that doesn't exist yet

[–] Toes@ani.social 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder what ram prices will look like shortly after the bubble pops.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If RAM will even be AVAILABLE to buy, what with their attempts to replace all personal computers with terminals slaved to pay as you go cloud computing "services" 😮‍💨😬

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

I'm not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Probably still astronomical, because the RAM being produced is specifically designed for use in large data-centers, not PCs.

This is a classic guns/butter problem. "We're using all our industrial resources to produce guns" doesn't mean the price of butter drops when the gun market falls through.

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 minutes ago

This doesn't make sense because the reverse would be true, and it's not. If they were so different an explosion in server demand wouldn't strongly affect consumer products.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Server RAM is not that much different.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 3 hours ago

I was wondering about that. I mean the sticks are different (consumer preferring faster ram, enterprise preferring an extra chip for ECC). But at the root it's all dram that should be the same underlying silicon by and large.

But, I won't say for certain because I've never really looked into ram production in that level of detail.