The Ticking Clock of AI Infrastructure: Decoding the Physical, Economic, and Environmental Lifespan of Data Center GPUs
Executive Overview The conversation surrounding the artificial intelligence boom has, for the past several years, been overwhelmingly dominated by a single, urgent narrative: procurement. Enterprise architects, hyperscalers, and sovereign cloud operators alike have scrambled to secure scarce AI accelerators—most notably Nvidia’s coveted silicon—while racing to stand up the massive data center facilities required to house,…
