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The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron

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“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how the Ai build out is not as big as it seems meanwhile Nvidia’s GPUs are going unused and losing value spelling trouble for CoreWeave’s GPU backed debt.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Hyperscalers have gone from the asset light cash machines to asset heavy behemoths.”Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how the Ai build out is not as big as it seems meanwhile Nvidia’s GPUs are going unused and losing value spelling trouble for CoreWeave’s GPU backed debt.Ed's latest free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/Discount link for Where's Your Ed At: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/3o1fvrk88u#/📩 Read Ed’s newsletter: https://wheresyoured.at 🎧 Listen to Ed’s podcast: https://betteroffline.comFor more from Ed: BlueSky: @edzitron.com Twitter: @EdZitron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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