oh boy gee is bout to be duped so hard by AI corporations that when the bubble pops the market will be flooded with cheap ram, ssds and gpus... right?WRONGTHEY RATHER DESTROY THEIR HARDWARE THAN SELL THEM TO POORS and they will just write off the losses and taxpayers will bail them out that way prices stay high. the era of cheap computers late 2010s-2025 had a good run now. We will see 1990s pricing as we already see in ram and gpus and soon 2012 ssd prices.
>>107706552simply take them from the garbage
>>107706656lmao enjoy the sand leftovers after corporations chuck them all into shredders
I already upgraded thoughbeit so I'm good for another 4 years at least
>>107706552>corporations have always offloaded hardware to recyclers who resell what they can>because of AI suddenly they wont do that
I think you have a gross misunderstanding of writing shit off, you're still taking massive fucking losses, all that changes is how much it reduces your tax bill, it's not 1:1 destroy working merch to reduce your tax bill to zero.If the bubble indeed does explode, every creditor is gonna flood the market trying to liquidate everything they can while the GPUs are still marginally worth something.
>>107706717its purpose-built junk with little value outside of its intended use in AI, the only real things of value that wouldn't be drilled/shredded out of confidentiality agreements would be raid controllers, ECC ram, webhost boxes / server blades and network switches the rest is well, scrap
>>107706552Storage is destroyed because of the data it could be holding or could be recovered from it.RAM can be sold.The GPUs they're buying aren't gaming GPUs, so doesn't matter.
>>107706754You know what happened last time there was a glut of server hardware?They made shit like thisCPUs and RAM are super easy to harvest and store and isn't trade secret hardware the vast majority of the time.My PC is also filled with "useless" server SSDsThe GPUs and servers will likely be actual scrap but if this shit pops you can prepare your anus for another LGA2011 situation
>>107706793yea the standard stuff will be sold off, kinda what i was getting at
>>107706552>>107706754You can literally buy used AI servers.
>>107706717A potentially interesting point to take note of is the haphazard hostility of the US government towards China. Specifically, American authorities have been arresting objectively insignificant players who have been buying up used 3090s and 4090s State-side, and shipping them to China.If you're a CEO, or a CTO of a relatively large company (not a centibillion one), there is a chance that you could get investigated if you sell your depreciated Nvidia hardware - worth tens of millions - and eventually ends up in China. I've been hearing more and more whispers of simply shredding the hardware (and increasing the writeoff-value) due to this novel risk.
>>107706552Good. Luddites don’t deserve anything
