You mean by locating their country on all that American oil?

At the moment all of the big AI providers building data centers are paying 10x the normal price for GPUs and RAM which is why companies like NVidia and Micron are making out like bandits. Keep in mind the AI providers have to recoup that spending at some point. Of course the rest of us are also paying 10x normal prices at the moment if we attempt to build our own servers.
NVidia and Micron (TSMC, Samsung etc) must have been massively ramping up production capacity to meet the demand.
Not only that but every year Moore's Law rolls on and GPUs and RAM keep getting faster and cheaper. Obviously this hasn't been happening for the last few years because demand is so high that even GPUs such as the 3090 which is 6 years old and should be selling for a tenth of its original RRP is still selling SECOND HAND at the same price. This is not normal.
My question is what happens when these huge buildouts eventually start to slowdown?
I'm assuming the market will be flooded with an abundance of cutting edge hardware at reasonable prices.
If things go back to their historical norm of GPU VRAM doubling every 2-2.5 years then we should expect a sanely priced 96GB GPU available for a few thousand dollars. Everyone including individuals, businesses and cloud providers will be able to buy at "normal" prices and won't be stuck having to charge like a wounded bull to recover the crazy prices the big players paid. Considering DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is 90% as good as current frontier models and runs very well with 192GB VRAM why would people pay Anthropic or OpenAI a premium for their slightly better models when they could choose any cloud provider for pretty much the same experience?
Of course Qwen3.6 27B already runs quite nicely on a single 3090 and does 99% of what the average person requires right now.
Is it ironic that AI companies going all out on data centers is the only thing keeping cheap powerful AI out of the hands of the masses? Once they stop building data centres hardware prices will normalize and their valuations will tank.

Yeah and the fact you can go to Huggingface right now and download an extremely powerful completely uncensored LLM means the horse has well and truly bolted. I guess they can pass a law making possession on non-approved models akin to possessing The Anarchist's Cookbook, which is currently illegal in many countries right now. I really shouldn't give them ideas.

Which part of this is flamebait? The fact that there is anyone on Slashdot low IQ enough to not realize both major US parties are completely and utterly owned by the same assholes is extremely depressing. How many times do they have to roll out some clown that tells you exactly what you want to hear only for them to completely go back back on their word and keep the status quo of forever wars and corporate welfare before you realize you're getting played?

The only thing on the verge of collapse in China economically might be whatever they rest their trade surplus on since it's getting to be so fucking huge.

You think animal brains aren't as deterministic as LLMs? Did the magic man in the sky make it so? I'm intrigued.

Australia doesn't have the death penalty for anything.

Context windows are so big now you can give the AI the specification for your new language or framework right in the prompt.

Did something? The Ayatollah rules Iran exactly because of what they did you dopey cunt. Am I interacting with a bot, a completely ignorant teenager or a complete fucking retard?

Holy shit, no one told me it was International day of the fucking straw man. Fuck off you retard.

Demonstrate it then.

Textbook straw man, bravo.

I'm curious, did you think that before or after the western media turned on the hatred propaganda about ten years ago when America finally realized it was going to be overtaken?
After the truly disgusting shit the west and the Japanese did to China over the last two hundred years we should probably keep our psychopathic mouths shut about what style of government whey ended up with.
Same thing goes for Iran. You spend decades destabilizing, overthrowing and destroying their country and then criticize their government for not being some model of democracy.
Same for Cuba.
Same for Venezuela.
Same for North Korea.
Same for all of the middle east.
We're the fucking worst.

I'm sure you've probably come across this but I thought I'd send it just in case... https://keck.usc.edu/news/fast...

"The $1.5 million is about 34 times the average employee compensation of 18 other large tech companies in the year before they went public."
So the others are getting $44k? Jeezuz.