This time, some of the ai companies’ critics may be overreaching. The accounting debate over how fast ai chips depreciate (dec 8, 2025) according to the wall street journal’s jonathan weil, a heated discussion has erupted over how quickly companies should depreciate the massive fleets of nvidia gpus and other ai hardware they’re buying. If a new chip can produce five times the ai tokens for the same energy cost, the outdated chips become burdens, as it becomes more economical to move on and acquire new hardware. The brief useful life of the chips and generous accounting assumptions underpinning investment in them are causing concerns, with warnings that ai capex could become a huge recurring expense. The accounting uproar over how fast an ai chip depreciates story by jonathan weil, wsj, december 8, 2025 the accounting uproar over how fast an ai chip depreciates The accounting uproar over how fast an ai chip depreciates precise answers are elusive for how quickly a company’s ai equipment falls in value by jonathan weil follow dec
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