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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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