The cloud industry has a combined market cap of around $250Bn, and the stakeholders (MSFT, AMZN, AAPL, etc) have combined market caps on the order of 10% of planetary GDP, and they're locked in a multiway prisoner's dilemma game with escalating stakes.
When this bubble bursts it's potentially going to cause a global recession. Never mind all the folks whose wages have been depressed or whose jobs have gone away because management bought into the AI grifters' spiel.
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2024-07-29 12:27:25
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