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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by ac29 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:33AM (#49021331)
The article notes Google Cloud revenue grew 82% YoY
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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by paxys on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:34AM (#49021345)
How much did Google spend to get that increase?
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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by inigyou on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:36AM (#49021357)
Why do people choose the cloud with a history of randomly deleting billion-dollar accounts?
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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by manarth on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:00AM (#49021753)
UniSuper?

(The claim felt so wild I wanted to check, and indeed, the private Google Cloud for the $125bn Australian pension fund was accidentally deleted by a provisioning misconfiguration. Any others?)

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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by inigyou on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:28AM (#49022235)
Yes, Google randomly deleted UniSuper for basically the same reason they randomly ban individual customers: they don't care. Relying on them for anything is a huge mistake.
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Re:Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spen... by zdragnar on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:19AM (#49022062)
IIRC, the files for Toy Story 2 were accidentally deleted during production, and the film was only saved because someone on maternity leave had a backup at home.

Turns out you can fuck up self hosting too.

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