• Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Can confirm: There’s a lot of money in machine room planning, setup, and building-out right now. If you have experience with electrical, cooling (water or forced air), cabling, and rackmount machine installation and sysadmin stuff, you’ll make good money.

    Also: When this shit crashes (and it will), used memory and GPUs will flood the market for cheap. Then it’ll be time to buy. Lol

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      19 hours ago

      I think a lot of gear will be server/AI specific and won’t run in peoples home computers. GPUs with no graphics driver support, no video output etc. Some memory finding itself into HBM modules instead of DDR5. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have an agreement with the semiconductor cartels to crush it all so it doesn’t land in the consumer market.

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        1 hour ago

        Yeah probably, but I think consumer hacks slash microchip companies might buy them and retrofit them to be GPU’s. If most of them are not just sold to the public, I suspect that nVIDIA et al might buy them back from business customers, and then modify them to re-sell to consumers.