GeekWire December 2, 2023
Conference attendees in Las Vegas are accustomed to encountering people standing on the street, aggressively trying to hand them flyers for, well, let’s just say for a variety of different services.
So it was a surprise, and a sign of the times, when someone standing on the Las Vegas Strip handed me a flyer for something else entirely during the Amazon Web Services re:Invent cloud conference this week.
“NEED GPU?” it read, in bold letters.
The promotional materials were from a company touting what it described as the “largest stockpile of GPUs available for the best price” — underscoring the soaring demand and short supply of the graphics processing units instrumental for training artificial intelligence models.
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