> The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects

[cwebber@social.coop]

> The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects

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this looks sustainable, datacenters are a one-time cost... right?!?

[elsapreme@chaosfem.tw]

@cwebber

I've never needed to upgrade a GPU ever. Still rocking my 3DFx Voodo3

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@cwebber wish we had LHC on that graph

[dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net]

@cwebber@social.coop @prietschka@mastodon.social

@prietschka Maybe we SHOULD burn it all down and start over…

[tereya@tech.lgbt]

@cwebber But if we raise taxes, the rich will just hide their assets and it won't make a difference! /sssssssssssss

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@cwebber I'm sure this won't come back to haunt the average taxpayers in any way.

[prietschka@mastodon.social]

@dogiedog64 @cwebber Chuck Palahniuk was right!

[sebbernery@mamot.fr]

@cwebber OMG I never thought about the fact those invest could have built the best railway system we can imagine on a continent scale. And operate it.

[aldeka@wandering.shop]

@cwebber ah yes, the MarshaLLM plan (_also_ implemented to forestall the spectre of communism!)

[sixohsix@icosahedron.website]

@cwebber with the exception of some railroads, all of those were government run programs. So yeah, private industry can deploy far more private capital than the US government can deploy taxed income. Not surprising.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cwebber @aeva chat are we cooked

[dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de]

@cwebber

Very nice info-graphic.

I hate this timeline.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph @cwebber @aeva by global warming, yes

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber imagine all the things that could have been done with that money if it was spent on stuff that benefited the general public instead

[musicman@mastodon.social]

@cwebber the data center bubble is clearly dumb, but I think the railroad line might be the most interesting/misleading one on the graph.

Or maybe it is the Interstate line that is misleading...or potentially misleading? Idk, no graph is ever going to be perfect, but yeah...

anyway...

It seems to equate rail spending and road spending, but the Interstate system is not the entire federal road system.

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@cwebber
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the over-leveragedest of them all?

[seanmiddleditch@hachyderm.io]

@aeva @cwebber Benefit the general public!? That's absolutely not what the people who invented money wanted it used for.

[smilingdemon@mastodon.art]

@cwebber utterly insane.

[balcanquhal@tldr.nettime.org]

@sixohsix @cwebber perhaps, but all of the numbers the hyperscalers are associated with are partially/entirely made up

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@cwebber luckily we will never need another data center ever again