You are assuming the HW shortage is the result of meeting a real demand and not just build-outs for a hypothetical demand that might never materialize.

>What's OpenAI going to do?

Close down would be a good idea.

The world would be a better place without AI, OpenAI, Anthropic and all others. It only immerses the world into chaos, dystopia and increased inequality. So far nothing for the public good has come out of it.

I broadly don’t use LLMs (once or twice a month), yet I’m still being hit by hardware price increases.