• StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    And they’re not going to switch production back to consumer hardware either. Those data centers will be used to sell virtual desktop subscriptions.

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      19 hours ago

      The hardware in those DCs isn’t suitable for virtual desktops. It’s specifically designed for doing lossy matrix multiplication, something that’s only useful for a certain type of “AI” tasks.

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        23 hours ago

        Because they will have no other option once their existing system dies. In this scenario actual PCs will be something only the wealthy can afford. Everyone else gets dumb terminals.

        And honestly, VDI is great from a general user standpoint. It’s the companies who run it that make it a bad option.