this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
587 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

88784 readers
2593 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
587
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National (www.thenationalnews.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
134 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Damage@feddit.it 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you look at it right now the only reason you don't have home AI as a commonplace solution is because the manufacturer has chosen not to sell it to you.

And memory shortage. By buying up all RAM they ensured that you can't run much more than lobotomized models.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Still much cheaper to run an open source model on a rented gpu from the cloud.

[–] Zeniv@lemmy.quasarke.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

up all RAM they ensured that you can’t run much more than lobotomized models. this is what I mean they've chosen to target a different consumer and rightfully so in that they are paying a premium for that product but they are also being subsidized by the same vendor so it's not clear that they are paying more due to the bizarre circular funding pattern.