Venturo: Hyperscalers ran NVIDIA K80 fleets for 10 years before retiring them
Brian Venturo · Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo · Jan 7, 2026 · at 42:16
Brian Venturo is the CSO and co-founder of CoreWeave, an AI cloud computing infrastructure provider. He discusses the operational lifespan of data center GPUs.
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“Last year is when we saw let's call it the hyperscalers that were around in the twenty-tenths, so Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, finally retire their NVIDIA K-eighty fleets, and the K-eighty was a GPU that was introduced in 2014. So it's, it was active in their clouds, almost fully utilized for 10 years.”
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