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Comment by samuelknight

8 hours ago

It is not artificial constraint. The build out is titanic; the supply of AI compute is doubling every 6.8 months. To feed that much growth hyperscalers have to price everyone else out of the market.

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Grombobulous  6 hours ago

To put the AI buildout in perspective, it exceeds the GDP percentage that was put into the railroads or interstate highway system.

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