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The economic lifespan of GPUs is widely believed to be only about three years, because model scale expansion and the generational leaps of new chip generations in compute and energy efficiency cause older cards to quickly lose cost-effectiveness.
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10/30/2026
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Valid until: 1/28/2027
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Fiber Lasts Decades, GPUs Only Three Years: The AI Boom Is Not the Dot-Com Bubble
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