Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

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    5 days ago

    Also, I doubt a GPU that’s been on blast 24/7 for the last couple of years will be worth much at auction. Might as well bury them in the same landfill as the data center.

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      These GPUs are useless outside of data centers anyway. Take the current gen, the B200. No DirectX or Vulkan support or even OpenGL I believe. Power usage about a kilowatt. SXM rather than PCI-E so it’s not like you can run it on a desktop motherboard.

      They’re literally e-waste after a few years. And they’re 40-50k per GPU, but often bought as a full system with 8 GPUs in it, for a couple hundred thousand.