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maxglute 3 hours ago

Depreciation schedule:

Tulips: weeks

GPUs: 6 years

Fiber: 20-50 years

Rail, roads, bridges: 50-100+ years

Hyperscalers closer to tulips than other hard infra.

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casey2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What rail, road or bridge in the US lasts 50 years? The maintenance of rail over 6 years costs more than replacing all the GPUs in a data center, even at their current markup.

	▲	bdangubic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		have you seen our rails, roads and bridges?!? 50 year old ones in many places are being referred to as “new ones” :) the only reason any “maintenance” on them is expensive is corruption which at municipal level rivals current administration in some places