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Hentai.
Just take a look at what Israel is doing with it and you'll start to understand what really is going to happen here.
What are they doing with it?
Using it to run the most resistrictive and devasting surveillance state in history
In capitalism, sustainability is not a goal.
It will be thrown in the trash, and the companies will reap big tax write-offs.
Palantir integrated police drone control network.
Recording and analyzing all the real-time video and audio feeds of their surroundings that everyone is required to provide while using the Internet, to ensure that no children are present when they use social media.
it'll flood the 2nd market, anything that can't be flipped past a certain point will be scrapped for recycling or just thrown away
When an AI company goes bankrupt, their hardware will be sold to anyone interested in it. My guess is, MS and Amazon will be buying a bunch of vacant datacenters within the next 10 years.
That’s enterprise hardware, so it’s not really compatible with your consumer grade gaming PC. If you’re interested in self hosting your own cloud photos and local LLMs, you might want to look into those auctions.
This, but also I think the fallout of the AI bubble popping will be different than people are envisioning. After the dot com bubble collapsed a lot of the infrastructure was sold at surplus and repurposed, but some of the infrastructure was left unused and just sat around for a while.
It’s not completely equivalent, but imo a great example of this is fiber optic. Early on, companies and governments invested in fiber optic technology in their local area to get in on the bubble hype, but after the bubble burst most of it went unused or not fully utilized in the way it was intended until recently, when Google bought various fiber optic networks around the country for Google fiber. This is the reason why in the last 10 or so years you had certain states and cities getting access to fiber connections before others.
Obviously this isn’t exactly the same, but I’ll be curious what the “fiber” of the AI bubble will be (if anything). My guess would be changes and hopeful improvements to our energy infrastructure, but time will tell.
A lot of that hardware is junk pretty soon anyway. Graphics cards run at full load 24/7 don’t last very long.
That's not really accurate at all. A GPU running at full load might wear out its fan, but if it's kept at a consistent temperature it's not going to shorten the life by much. The stress on a GPU generally comes from either being over bolted or from the thermal expansion and shrinkage from an inconsistent temp.
This is kind of what I'm wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.
I think a lot of them find their way onto eBay where they get sold to unwitting gamers.
I think hardware as a service will be their next thing, raise the cost of parts so people buy a cheap sub then increase the aubscription year by year.
Agree. I think MS and Google selling more cheap "cloud laptops" could totally be a thing. The personal device would mostly be a screen and bare bones components
Chromebooks is just the testing phase.
I feel like it could even be chromecast like devices which just plug into a screen and connect to server, cheap hardware sold at a loss to rope you into a sub.
Google execs like
Crypto mining. And Im sure they're being built with this dual purpose in mind.
Have you seen Sears?
ChatGPT alone has 800 million weekly users of which the vast majority are normal people - not companies. The demand is there despite it not being able to increase company profit margins the way people expected. I don't see this computing infrastructure needing to run idle anytime soon.
Chatgpt is constantly losing money, public surface-level interest won't matter much when the capital runs out and they're still accruing significant debt without any revenue.
A major problem faced by first-mover companies like OpenAI is that they spend an enormous amount of money on basic research and initial marketing and hardware purchases to set up in the first place. Those expenses become debts and have to be paid off by the business later. If they were to go bankrupt and sell off ChatGPT to some other company for pennies on the dollar that new owner would be in a much better position to be profitable.
There is clearly an enormous demand for AI services, despite all the "nobody wants this" griping you may hear in social media bubbles. That dermand's not going to disappear and the AIs themselves won't disappear. It's just a matter of finding the right price to balance things out.
They're losing money mostly because of massive investments in new datacenters and GPUs. Not because people are not willing to pay for using it.
Nope, you'll certainly need a source to back that speculation up.
Half a billion people are "using" AI and the total llm market cap is a few billion. On average, users may be willing to pay up to 50 cents a month for inaccurate word association.
Not even a drop in the buckets companies need to fill up with everything they're spending just on advertising, not to mention infrastructure, utility and upgrade costs.
People are statistically not willing to sustainably pay for llms, even if we assumed the rosy predictions of 20x LLM market caps in a decade.
Devil's advocate: Increased AI cash flow could occur if people don't realize their ai "search results" are paid advertisements, and considering longstanding obliviousness to directed advertising and the recent abolishment of US consumer rights...it could happen.
"Nope" implies you already have a source proving me wrong.
Yes; the included source and explanatory paragraph above in the same comment you are referencing.
Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?
Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?
ChatGPT alone has 800 million weekly users and their total revenue in 2025 was 13 billion with 70% coming from normal users. That's drop in the bucket though considering they've commited to investing a trillion dollars into new computing capacity over the next 10 years.
This is why you should provide a source, your numbers and associated assumptions are incorrect:
Chatgpt has estimated revenue of 1.3 billion, not 13 billion, neither of which are remotely significant as revenue streams relative to cost.
That's the thrust of my opening paragraph, and then you appear to have taken up my drop in the bucket analogy, so i guess we're on the same page now.
Would be a lot quicker and easier if you just googled it yourself.
OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024
OpenAI hits $12 billion in annualized revenue, The Information reports
OpenAI (MSFT) Revenue Doubles to $10 Billion as AI Adoption Accelerates
OpenAI revenue doubles to $12 bn, clocks in 700 mn weekly ChatGPT users
OpenAI hits $12 Billion annualized revenue with 700M weekly users
OpenAI generates $4.3 billion in revenue in first half of 2025, the Information reports
OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
You mean the independent source I provided several messages ago you're trying hard not to acknowledge?
You've got to learn personal and community responsibility sooner or later. You can make wild claims, but since they've already been disproved, you're going to have to provide evidence eventually.
They are about to put ads in the service. The money will be made eventually
I think OP is talking about all of the future data centers that are allegedly being build despite nobody even knowing where. Nvidia has agreed to pay OpenAI $10B per gigawatt of datacenter for 10 gigawatts of datacenter build up over the next few years.
Unlikely that will fully materialize, but that's the current outlook.
Theres a proposal for one in Scotland that will use up as much electricity as the whole country combined (Except during winter where peak load is a whopping 1/3 higher than the proposed data centre.
They're trying to build several right now near my home in Southeast Michigan. So now you know where.
That sucks. Sorry about your luck.
We're doing our best to shut down wherever they pop up but they REALLY want our electricity, land, and water.
The free plan of chatgtp is more than enough for most people. And when they decide to start charging for it, probably 30% of free users will switch to a different (mahbe even locally run) Ai.
I suspect Microsoft will use them for a videogame subscription streaming service
With the direction Microsoft has taken windows the past decade or so, a GPU farm in the back room will be needed to run windows 12. Maybe that's why everyone needs a Microsoft account to use windows these days - Microsoft is planning ahead.
Companies will never admit it. They’ll drive this shit right into the ground and keep digging
They're probably just gonna trash it and move to the next thing.
I hope some of it hits the used market, so tinkerers can play with them.
But yeah, knowing them, they will probably just throw the hardware away :(
A write off.
Personally I can't wait until Nvidia releases a new generation and they start shedding gpus. Helloooo secondary market!
Auctioned off and used by startups and homelabs.
How much RAM are they using? Would a RAMdisk VPS make any sense?
Its more VRAM heavy servers. They’d have to take the GPUs out, or even put the whole motherboard in a new case.
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