Think about what this _means_, and let's be really conservative and assume a huge splay of 10 year old to current hw: 8 million cores, 10 million storage devic

Think about what this _means_, and let's be really conservative and assume a huge splay of 10 year old to current hw: 8 million cores, 10 million storage devices (100-1000x IOPS, 1-10x TB capacity), 8x recent global IP transit rate with just 2Gbit laggs. By the way, hyperscalers have many of these. That's enough compute to boil an ocean, at one datacenter. Now back at ya, go figure out the useful work per machine. Google does pretty good in ecosystem investment. They do have people that know how computers work, and more importantly decision makers that let them pay huge dividends (i.e. containers vs VMs, CPU cache partitioning, TCP performance). I've seen little evidence of the same at Amazon. Sorry, you can provide statistics that the majority of the 25k committers at one of these companies (ACM Queue monorepo article) are not toiling in a morass of overgrowth. People have told me things, YMMV, draw your own research and conclusions as I have mine. That lawsuit was during a critical time. I can't comment any more there. On GOOG, if you have enough money to make it worthwhile and want to ride a fractional increase above market growth rate, it's a safe stock, but it's not likely to to multiply over the next few years.