Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by philipallstar on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:58AM
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It's like you paying me to fix your sink, me paying Fred to build me a shed, and Fred paying you to fix his wifi.
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Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by tim333 on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:25AM
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It's more like you offering to invest $1bn in Fred's company in return for a promise to spend $1bn for sink fixing services. You could question if there is a demand or $1bn of sink fixing in the same way that you could wonder about the demand for $100bn of AI slop.
Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by philipallstar on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:33AM
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Investing is just an equivalent value exchange. My point is that while you could say in my example that money just moved around in a circle, it turns out that money moving around in a circle is actually fine.
Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by tim333 on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @06:56AM
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I agree money in a circle is fine. But in your example there is a straightforward situation of an end customer paying money for a service, eg. getting a sink fixed. The worry with the data centers is will there be enough end customers willing to pay what the data centers cost.
Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by eldgfipo on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:51AM
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No, the problem here would be we don't know if anybody actually need wifi, a shed or his sink to be repaired.
Re:The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
by philipallstar on Thursday October 09, 2025 @07:47AM
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We do, because they've already done that stuff. You're talking about whether any of the 3 people will be able to get more money in afterwards, which seems like a separate issue to this.