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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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It's mostly an outlay for building out the expensive data centers quickly.
Don't get me wrong - it's still wasteful shit with no clear benefit - but once all the capacity is built the ongoing costs won't be as high.
The video cards are expensive and are outdated in a few years. The energy costs and water costs are huge.
They are kinda already outdated. The GPUs in use now are from the 2022 line mostly, 90% of the 2024 line is sitting in storage, and IDK about this year's.
They are not actually building that DC capacity they sell either.