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Comment by Legend2440

2 months ago

That's because the tech industry has more money than god and nothing better to do with it.

Microsoft alone has half a trillion dollars in assets, and Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon are in similar financial positions. Spending a few tens of billions on datacenters is, as crazy as it sounds, nothing to them.

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