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> I wonder why we haven't seen deployment of organic Rankin cycle generators in AI data centers

Because there was never a long term plan for AI data centers. It's an AI market capture and cash grab scheme that ends when local models eat their lunch.

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That makes no sense. Do you think their plan is to spend billions of dollars and build infrastructure mega projects just to let it sit idle?

Did the rise personal computing make data centers and super computers obsolete?

Any advance in inference that allows local models to do the job will also benefit hyperscalers. Imagine the sheer amount of compute they could throw at problems if each 32GB of VRAM was enough for frontier reasoning.

They could also be betting that there will only be 1 or 2 big winners. And if they don't win they are saving on expenses, if they do win then they will have all the money they need to upgrade later if they want.

CCC was building the Cray-3/SSS when it went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1995.

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