Comment by cmiles8
The amount of Big Tech cash flow being diverted into capital investment coupled with the lack of viable business models to actually fund that outflow of cash is outright scary.
A lot of parallels here to infrastructure buildouts leading up to the .com implosion. A lot of dark fiber got dusted off later and used, but unclear if the present buildout of GPUs will have similar decades-long utility.
When did AI become a thing? After it turned out blockchain is not going to change the world after all and the price of a gpu operation dropped dramatically as infrastructure became disused. Something else, currently prohibitively expensive, will drop below a viability line and see massive uptake and improvement.