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Demand is so high that no generation of chips has been retired

development2026-04-27

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The AWS chief executive said demand is so excessive that the company has never retired old A100s, marking a post-obsolescence era for silicon, while a planned Utah data center would generate its own power, clean its own water and consume more electricity than the entire state.

Reporting date: 2026-04-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Demand is so high that no generation of chips has been retired
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-27-we-have-never-retired-old-a100s
Claim: The AWS chief executive said demand is so excessive that the company has never retired old A100s, marking a post-obsolescence era for silicon, while a planned Utah data center would generate its own power, clean its own water and consume more electricity than the entire state.
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- Welcome to April 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-27-2026
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