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Amazon warehouses fill with GPUs it cannot install
Original: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team sai
Amazon is reported to be stockpiling graphics processing units in warehouses faster than it can deploy them, with its own supply chain team saying there is no clear forecasted path to installing the hardware. The reported over-ordering highlights how fiercely tech companies are racing to secure AI computing capacity, sometimes outpacing data centre readiness and creating costly idle inventory.
Why now: It fuels the ongoing debate over whether the AI infrastructure boom is leading to wasteful overinvestment.
Evidence
- Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. https://www. businessinsider.com/amazon-220… · yogthos@social.marxist.network · 8
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