The answers to both of those questions are pretty guarded trade secrets. Amazon and Google just to name a couple examples are very profitable companies and I would not bet on them investing all this money without real use cases where profit is likely. Amazon is adding thousands of new robots to their factories every year.

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therobots927 3 hours ago | parent [-]

So your argument basically boils down to, the datacenter build out is not a waste of resources because if it was, these companies wouldn’t be building them.

Got it.

	▲	lukeschlather an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, your argument is that Google has had increasing revenue and profit for a decade, to the point that they have $400B in revenue + profit this year, and that they are going to lose money because they plan to spend $180B on capital projects for new data centers next year, because you know their business better than they do.