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badmonstertoday at 7:15 PM1 replyview on HN

He's right to question the economics. The AI infrastructure buildout resembles the dot-com era's excess fiber deployment - valuable long-term, but many individual bets will fail spectacularly. Utilization rates and actual revenue models matter more than GPU count.


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ambicaptertoday at 8:50 PM

Fiber seems way easier to get long-term value out of then GPUs, though. How many workloads today other than AI justify massive GPU deployments?