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The hardware can't really be repurposed, it is build for an very specific use case. The AI accelerators for example can't be just used as graphic card, even if they use lots of the same parts, but the whole layout and interfaces are completely different. We are speaking of highly integrated hardware with extremely specified firmware that is guarded by sophisticated encryption layers.

Even if some hardware hackers find ways to crack, modify and repurpose some of it, then nothing on the large scale will change. Such modifications would be extremely difficult and time consuming (aka expensive) and only a very small percentage of people have the skill, knowledge and/or the equipment do do something like that.

We are far away from the 80s where it was easy to tinker with hardware.

Killing the entire planet to feed Americans aged over 55. Who own 73% of that entire country. That's who benefits from nvidia stock going up forevermore. Yay retirement funds.

What we need is regulations and a controlled shrinkage of that bubble, not a world shattering implosion of all finance and production markets in a huge pop. Else we will get famine, war and absolute chaos all over the world and that will then burn the world much more then the datacenters ever could.

Yeah, but when the bubble pops then all that money that was created by circlurar financing will be vanish from one second to the other. They don't really have that money as liquid currency but it is part of a huge net of interwoven transactions between all the AI companies. And yes, Nvidia will most likely not get bankrupt but a lot of other compaines will do, and the ones who will survive will see extremly huge losses. The effect on the global finance market will make the Wall Street crash of 1929, the 2008 financial crisis, and all other crisis together look like a fun day in kindergarden.