Re:Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
by lelanthran on Thursday December 04, 2025 @07:28AM
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Why look at percentage of population?
Netscape in 1997/1998 had about 90% of the target market.
OpenAI today has about 30% of the target market, maybe? (seeing as how every single Windows installation comes with copilot chat already, it's probably less. Every non-tech user I know has already used copilot because it was bundled and Windows prompted them into using it with a popup. Only one of those non-tech users even heard of OpenAI, maybe 50% of them have heard that there are alternatives to Copilot, but they still aren't using those alternatives)
Netscape in 1997/1998 had about 90% of the target market.
OpenAI today has about 30% of the target market, maybe? (seeing as how every single Windows installation comes with copilot chat already, it's probably less. Every non-tech user I know has already used copilot because it was bundled and Windows prompted them into using it with a popup. Only one of those non-tech users even heard of OpenAI, maybe 50% of them have heard that there are alternatives to Copilot, but they still aren't using those alternatives)