• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Do we actually know where the money for all this is coming from? The hardware and power bills alone should look like a huge black hole for any company doing this. Completely unsustainable, and yet Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple all continue to function without issues.

    The revenue generated is tiny, so where is the money coming from?

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      3 months ago

      We ran a lot of QE during Covid, which is still going into stocks. VTI doubled the last 4 years.

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      4 months ago

      Duh, the datacenter holding company is funded by openAI, which is funded by nvidia, who makes their money selling chips to the datacenter holding company, who then rents out their equipment to openAI, who gets funding from nvidia. So basically Enron 2.0

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      2 months ago

      From the real economy. It will be syphoned off, until the circular card house of imaginary money flows is going to collapse under the weight of reality.