When the AI Bubble Pops, Will We Inherit a Landfill of Dead GPUs?

Everyone keeps hugging the bedtime story that the internet bubble popped and we all turned out just fine, and Doctorow strolls in and rips the blanket clean off the bed. He points out the 1990s blowout at least left behind cheap fiber, the actual plumbing of two good decades, while the current binge leaves warehouses of graphics cards that shed their value the instant a faster one ships. The bubbles are cousins, fine, except the second hangover arrives with class-action lawsuits and a landfill packed with obsolete GPUs. Doctorow makes the distinction at Pluralistic.