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Yeah corporations love spending massive amounts of money on projects with no return on their investment. Microsoft is signing a 20 year contract for massive amounts of power for funsies, and totally handing out copilot licenses for free to all the other corporations that are adopting it.
Have you ever sat in a meeting with corporate people? All they every think about is money money and more money. Laugh all you want - MS is doing the laughing as every company scrambles to adopt AI purely out of fear of being left behind, and they are paying for it. The install base is already so huge for the OS, this is the easiest payout they could ask for. They have to shit the bed HARD to fuck this up.
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I’ll take “comments posted with extremely definite and concrete knowledge of current operator spend and market dynamics” for 2c, Alex
The tech industry runs on investors spurred on by hype and promises of huge profits somewhere in the future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
thank you for reminding me of this which I forget
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the
Man the internet is wild. I say MS probably has a plan to profit from AI based on their 20 year contract for nuclear power and you guys are like “but Enron failed!” Holy fuck ya really reaching to pick those cherries now
Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.
it’s weird that Enron of all things was the line for them
I'm also impressed that the bailey they retreat into ('I just said that they would have a plan to make money over 20 years') is just as badly defendable as the motte 'they must be making money'. Quality work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCom_scandal
There's a full cherry tree, you can pick as many cherries as you can eat.
You say "plan" but I think what you really mean is that Satya crossed his fingers and hoped for the best
@Broken_Monitor
More like they decided the only hope for making a profit off AI is by investing in nuclear power.
Hey man, as someone who literally worked at MSFT in Azure Identity a year ago, let me assure you, this is exactly what MSFT is also doing while their devs scratch their heads in bewilderment on how on earth they're going to incorporate genAI into the auth token service.