GPUs don't spontaneously break, and most will not decay in a decade of climate-controlled cold storage. People would underclock their current hardware to push out the lifespan, collect donor boards of broken GPUs that have working components, and stockpile whatever older hardware is still relevant. In theory, a scavenger-style AI economy could persist for several decades using conventional board-level repair and donor parts.
GPUs don't spontaneously break, and most will not decay in a decade of climate-controlled cold storage. People would underclock their current hardware to push out the lifespan, collect donor boards of broken GPUs that have working components, and stockpile whatever older hardware is still relevant. In theory, a scavenger-style AI economy could persist for several decades using conventional board-level repair and donor parts.