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AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Duh… it’s just the next buzzword grift… blockchain, nft, AI… yes each one has a niche of a place but they’re not world changers people were making them out to be, just those were were trying to ride the bubble and get their money before it pops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The main difference I see is that blockchain and nfts never really made a huge splash in large corporations. Now we have the S&P 500 dominated primarily by tech companies that are dumping billions into AI and telling investors it will turn all their fantasies into reality. I don't remember bitcoin ever motivating this level of institutional bedlam.

When those tech companies fail to breakeven on their ai initiatives, I think the deflating of the ai bubble may just trigger a major recession. Look at any target year retirement fund and Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, NVidia, Apple are all insanely large portions of the fund holdings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I personally think all those companies have enough cash and revenues (not tied to "AI" pitches) that we don't have to worry about a US recession (with consequences for the the rest of us), but I could be wrong.

But one does wonder what happened to (US) corporate governance laws where such actions can be taken with no worry.