Technology

63614 readers

4570 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

389

Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

37 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If buying a new video card made me money, yes.

This doesn't really work, because the goal when you buy a video card isn't to have the most possible processing power ever and playing video games doesn't scale linearly so having an additional card doesn't add anything.

If I was mining crypto, or selling GPU compute (which is basically what ai companies are doing) and the existing card got an update that made it perform on par with new cards, I would buy out the existing cards and when there are no more, I would buy up the newer cards, they are both generating revenue still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If buying a new video card made me money, yes

But this is the supposition that not buying a video card makes you the same money. You're forecasting free performance upgrades so there's no need to spend money now when you can wait and upgrade the hardware once software improvements stop.

And that's assuming it has anything to do with AI but the long term macroeconomics of Trump destroying the economy so MS is putting off spending when businesses will be slowing down because of the tariff war.