NVIDIA employee #4 David Rosenthal (#DSHR) thinks five-year straight-line depreciation is dramatically overstating #AI profits, because #NVIDIA chips are “more than half the #capex for a new data center”; also, 80–90% of #neural-networks energy usage is now inference rather than training. “If the lenders are using a five-year life when valuing the hardware as collateral they will run into trouble too. It is rumored that Macquairie was lending against GPUs using a seven-year life.” Quotes Ed Zitron: “#OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.” #finance #accounting
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