Original link: Every major tech company quietly extended how long they claim servers last / LinkedIn.
I think it is fair to say that the development of ordinary servers has slowed a little and that can justify increasing server life time to more than 3 years.
But setting the lifetime of AI GPU's to more than 3 years is crazy.
Longer life time => smaller depreciation => higher reported income.
But it is worth noting that it is not "forever cumulative". When the hardware is actually discarded, then any residual value in the books will have to be written off. So it is a temporary making the numbers look better thing.