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For the same reason any consumer of cloud services would. Building data centers is expensive and on-demand compute is nice

• toomuchtodo 9y ago
  It cost the US government $20 billion for air conditioning alone during the Iraq war. A data center is a rounding error. On demand compute is nice for startups, but overly expensive for mature organizations.
  • chrisseaton 9y ago
    Just because they spent $20 billion on this, and $20 billion on that, doesn't mean that they also have another $20 billion they can spend on something else as well. There's no logic in that argument.
    • toomuchtodo 9y ago
      Large organizations have the cash flows and reserves to realize efficiencies smaller organizations cannot. You cannot afford to own a refinery. Delta Airlines can and does, as a hedge against fuel costs (which turned out to be a very profitable decision for them). That is the point.