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by blibble 154 days ago
it's not exponential, it's linear

> the bankruptcies of many of the players will push the costs down

the running costs don't disappear because people go broke

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Your words bro. 10x isn’t linear.

The cost iceberg with this stuff isn’t electricity, it’s the capital.

Other than Google and Facebook, the big hype players can’t produce the growth required to support the valuations. That’s why the OpenAI people started fishing for .gov backstops.

The play is get the government to pay and switch out whatever Nvidia stuff they have now with something more efficient in a few years.