AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis worse

Very strange article. H100s aren't going to be E-waste anytime soon. Unless they die from HBM vias cracking or something someone (e.g. me) will want them for local AI even after decommissioning them from a datacenter.

E-waste is almost entirely a right to repair problem, not an AI problem. We make too much electronic stuff where minor issues bricks the entire device.

Particularly Apple who are complete asshats about making repair very expensive if something like a screen breaks or a battery needs replacement. They really push you to just throw out the old one and buy new as the only option.

Or AI makes consumer hardware much more expensive in the short term (3-5 years) so people aren't upgrading as much.

Long term when chips and memory demand eases, I could see it.