I thought that the biggest buyer of this storage was Open AI, and they currently don't have the power they need to run all of the data centers they're building.
My hunch is that many of these drives will still be new in the boxes and never used by the time they go bust.
One of the few nice things about being in our current post-prosperity dystopian hellscape is that we now have prediction markets for everything.
If you disagree that AI will be taking over all white collar jobs within 18 months (and you probably should), you can make a wager against it.
Likewise, if you think that the AI bubble will be bursting in 18 months and the market will suddenly be flush with surplus AI data center storage, you can place a wager on that as well.
Which AI company is getting these drives? The one that tells people to walk to the car wash to get your car cleaned, or the one that makes blatant ripoffs of Marvel movies?
On the flip side, when the great AI boom goes bust 18 months from now, you'll probably be able to pick up some surplus Enterprise grade 20 TB hard drives in the bankruptcy auctions for around $50 each.
Alternate Translation: That Super Bowl ad with the dog rescue thing kinda backfired on us. We'll try again in six months when nobody is paying attention with just some small modifications to the privacy policy contract. Let's hope that nobody important notices.
Not everybody needs to know how to program, and those people who were being forced into taking a CS class were likely never going to be all that good at it.
If anything, they were likely creating the next generation of managers who think that they understand IT because they took one college course in it. They know just enough to have dangerous assumptions, but not enough knowledge to be genuinely useful.
Usually an IPO gives a cash burning startup enough money to stay afloat for at least a year. Although, with the way Open AI is burning through cash building ALL the data centers, they might go through it quicker than that.
So, that said... we should expecting the next great tech stock implosion to happen around mid 2027?
I'm sure that somewhere buried in the terms and conditions is a statement that allows Amazon AI to analyze your video footage for products that they can monetize.
That way, the next time you log into amazon.com, they can recommend winter floor mats for the 2018 Toyota RAV-4 they see in your driveway and flea and tick medication for the golden retriever that you take for walks every afternoon.
Oh, and if those flowers are looking a bit wilted come spring, maybe they should recommend some fertilizer as well.
Bazzite seems to be the new hotness for user friendly Linux distributions, which seems to be stealing Mint's thunder in that space.
Businesses will probably continue to stick with the stable and reliable Linux distros like Ubuntu, Debian, and RHEL. So, who is Mint for, exactly?
I have to wonder if these stories are actually real, or if this is just Big Tech putting out these scare pieces to prevent senior IT people from looking for another job.
Sure, many of us haven't had a meaningful raise in years and recently had our work from home benefits taken from us, but they're hoping that we read this crap and think "Gee... at least we aren't being asked to work 70 hours a week, maybe I should stick around a bit longer".
Yeah, but the whole "$200,000 Monkey JPEG" thing was the high point of the last 2021-2022 crypto rally.
This last rally seemed to be more of a "We can put Bitcoin ETF's in our IRA now, and we just got a crypto friendly president in office! Buy Buy Buy!" sort of thing.
Bitcoin seems to have this odd 4 year cycle where it skyrockets to more than double it's prior all time high, only to crash over 50% in value 6 months later.
It went from around 20,000 back to 3,000 around 2018, and from $62,000 back to $16,000 around 2022. This time in 2025-2026 it drops from $120,000 to... $55,000? I'm not sure where the bottom is, but I don't think that we hit it yet.
Each dip seems to be a bit less crazy than the last one, but it's definitely either a "cyclical asset" if you're a Bitcoin believer or a giant "pump and dump scam" if you're a Bitcoin hater.
I'm still trying to figure out how they resolve the latency issues of putting a data center into orbit.
When I'm talking to my AI chatbot, I don't really want to wait an extra 5 seconds for a response because my request is getting beamed into orbit before being sent back to me.
Tesla has been doing this as well. They buried navigation with traffic into the "premium connectivity" package for $10 a month along with music streaming.
This probably also explains why Tesla doesn't support Apple CarPlay, because it gives you an easy bypass to those missing "premium" features.
Of course, they also made "full" self driving a $99 a month subscription as well.
What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel.
