> Most of the money is being spent on incredibly expensive GPUs that have a 1-3 year lifespan due to becoming obsolete quickly and wearing out under constant, high-intensity use.
How about chips during the dotcom period? What was their lifespan?
How about chips during the dotcom period? What was their lifespan?
Maybe in next decade we will have cheap gaming cloud offerings built on repurposed GPUs.
Which is exactly what we expect if technological efficiency is increasing over time. Saying we've invested 1000x in aluminum plants and research over the first steel plants means we've had massive technological growth since then. It's probably better that it's actually moving around in an economy than just being used to consolidate more industries.
>compute/storage servers became obsolete faster than networking
In the 90s extremely rapidly. In the 00s much less rapidly. And by the 10's servers and storage especially the solid components like boards lasted a decade or more. The reason the servers became obsolete in the 90s is much faster units came out fast and were much faster, not that the hardware died. In the 2010-2020 era I repurposed tons of data center hardware to onsite computers for small businesses. I'm guessing a whole lot less of that hardware 'went away' then you'd expect.