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Comment by lisbbb

1 hour ago

Increasing electricity prices are going to be its undoing. AI is an environmental disaster in multiple directions.

What will we do with all the compute? Landfills, just like all other e-waste. It's never getting repurposed. I already saw this story play out multiple times in the past. The dot-com bubble led to so much waste--PBXs, switches, PCs, monitors, all thrown on the heap. Oh, sorry, "surplused" then thrown on a heap in the Philippines or wherever.