The schedule on which the debt raised against the machine is repaid, which the machine must outlast. Chapter 10 calls it the rack’s clock, the term over which the rack’s hardware is paid for; the owner’s own clock is the useful life over which it depreciates the hardware. Chapter 10.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 10 — The Lender’s Decision
Who is lending the money and who bears the loss: the bonds, leases and guarantees behind the largest campuses, and how the paper reaches ordinary retirement accounts.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Lenders’ clock.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/lenders-clock (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-lenders-clock-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Lenders' clock}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/lenders-clock},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}