Anyone know? Feel like I should get educated on this so I don’t look silly when I talk about it. I guess we can support it much more easily than I thought.

  • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.netOP
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    2 months ago

    blob-no-thoughts

    I don’t even know how to begin to parse this lol I’ve never been an Econ guy, but everything that’s been happening lately seems to be a flagrant violation of le basic Econ libertarians love so much. I guess I will never understand how companies can continue to take these massive losses to build something with an expected payout that never comes.

    Holy shit it’s all incredibly nonsensical

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      My understanding is the utility is not taking losses (yet), but rather are taking out loans for the build-out of the more significant parts of the infrastructure, with the idea being they will be re-paid with the incoming revenue from the data-centers themselves

      How well that works is going to be almost entirely dependent upon whether or not AI stays common enough for those data-centers to remain open, sooo…

      I’ve been polishing my resume