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Re:Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 mo... by babelfish on Saturday November 22, 2025 @02:20PM (#46017457)
ChatGPT being the #5 website in the world is still indicative of consumer demand, as their only product is AI. Without commenting on the Google shims specifically, AI infrastructure buildouts are not speculative.
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Re:Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 mo... by ThrowawayTestr on Saturday November 22, 2025 @02:41PM (#46017601)
Google isn't chatgpt. Normal people have no idea what Gemini is and are annoyed by the crappy AI summaries in their Google searches.
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Re:Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 mo... by halJordan on Saturday November 22, 2025 @05:57PM (#46019092)
That's not true at all. People love things like nano banana and notebooklm.
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Re:Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 mo... by diamond559 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:34PM (#46018465)
It's indicative of the demand when it's free yeah, try charging every user just to operate at cost and we'll see what the real demand is.
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