• grinde@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    … assuming that the server is good for 5 years. If it’s only good for 3 years, the economics are basically impossible.

    And surely the big AI companies wouldn’t decide that hardware rated for ~3 years should be amortized over 5-6 years in order to massively inflate their value on paper.

    Surely.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      I’m sure Bernie Madoff’s fund had an ‘accounting puzzle’ too.

      I love how the publications call it a ‘puzzle’ rather than what it so obviously is- a bunch of people throwing $billions at tech they don’t understand which has no serious road to profitability anytime soon.