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orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The AI bubble is getting ready to burst.

The desperation here lmao

As part of its strategy, Oracle has begun requiring clients to help build infrastructure, per the CIO report, citing TD Cowen. This effectively translates to asking clients to shoulder part of the cost, according to the investment bank.

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GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It is also exploring an arrangement called “bring your own chip” (BYOC), where new customers will be required to supply their own hardware, shifting capital requirements off Oracle’s books.

Does anyone else do this? I could see a smaller data center needing it, but hardware management is something I thought was a perk of going with a huge company

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- p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t understand why Oracle or the reporter tried to invent a new term for this. This is literally “colocation”, a term so ubiquitous that the industry typically shortens it to “colo”.
  
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  - orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, I used to manage a colocated Apache server back in the mid 2000s.
    
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- Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I think they usually just refer to this as on premise management? Like, its your server but an outside company manages everything for you
  
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  - GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ah yeah I’ve heard of that
    
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    Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Leave it to Oracle to advertise it as something completely new and innovative.
    
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