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Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by simonh on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:04AM (#11453447)
The AWS data centres aren't an asset?

I'd have thought comparing funding expanding Amazon's data centre capacity from revenue is very comparable to Tesla building out it's manufacturing capability the same way.

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Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by discodave on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:45AM (#11453763)
The DCs are assets with 5-20 year lifespans but the servers depreciate over 3-5 years.

Amazon has also been doing a bunch of capital lease shenanigans so they could expand AWS without having to report GAAP losses over the last few years.

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Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by fabulist on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:55PM (#11456545)
Genuinely curious, who sells, rebuilds, or otherwise "end of lifes" a datacenter after 5 years?
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