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XorNottoday at 8:11 PM1 replyview on HN

The eventual utility of the Internet did not stop a lot of people losing a lot of money in the dotcom crash.


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stulttoday at 8:16 PM

Fair, but my point is that a data center is not pets.com. They are a much more flexible asset, and are even more flexible than AI itself. Pets.com failed because the physical delivery infrastructure and consumer buying habits that support Chewy today did not yet exist and took years to create. Data centers can be repurposed from supporting the current generation of LLM-based AI models to an infinite variety of use cases. Pets.com could only ever hope to deliver pet food.

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