• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    People are dumping billions of dollars into it, mostly power, but it cannot turn profit.

    So the companies who, for example, revived a nuclear power facility in order to feed their machine with ever diminishing returns of quality output are going to shut everything down at massive losses and countless hours of human work and lifespan thrown down the drain.

    This will have an economic impact quite large as many newly created jobs go up in smoke and businesses who structured around the assumption of continued availability of high end AI need to reorganize or go out of business.

    Search up the Dot Com Bubble.