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David Erik Nelson🪬<p>Cyberpunk is Gen X’s “populuxe”—or using aesthetics to predict the future <a href="https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/04/cyberpunk-is-gen-xs-populuxe-or-using-aesthetics-to-predict-the-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index</span><span class="invisible">.php/2025/04/cyberpunk-is-gen-xs-populuxe-or-using-aesthetics-to-predict-the-future/</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/newsF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newsF</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/NowIsTheFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowIsTheFuture</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/Prognostication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prognostication</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/RecommendedReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecommendedReading</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/WilliamGibson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilliamGibson</span></a></p>
C.<p>Lots of reports about how <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/datacenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenter</span></a> operators/#hyperscalers are working on huge <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/capacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capacity</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/expansions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expansions</span></a> because of the sudden demand for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> model-building (and to a lesser extent, inference usage). i.e. </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/hyperscale_datacenter_capacity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/10/18/hyp</span><span class="invisible">erscale_datacenter_capacity/</span></a></p><p>That one suggests capacity will triple over the next 6 years. Triple!</p><p>Easy <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prognostication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prognostication</span></a>: in 2 or 3 years, when many companies realize "AI" isn't helping them much, they'll cut back. All that spare capacity makes <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prices</span></a> plummet...</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bankruptcy</span></a> for some?</p>
Tom B. Taker<p>Prediction: I’ll need a new bottle of bourbon by tomorrow. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/prognostication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prognostication</span></a></p>