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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 12 points 5 days ago

Yeah… Linear increases in performance appear to require exponentially more data, hardware, and energy.

Meanwhile, the big companies are passing around the same $100bn IOU, amortizing GPUs on 6-year schedules but burning them out in months, using those same GPUs as collateral on massive loans, and spending based on an ever-accelerating number of data centers which are not guaranteed to get built or receive sufficient power.