Everybody is focusing on what happens on top of the CPU, but very few people talk about what happens beneath it. Datacenters are fucking expensive to build and

Everybody is focusing on what happens on top of the CPU, but very few people talk about what happens beneath it. Datacenters are fucking expensive to build and run, buying network and compute hardware is a pain in the ass, maintaining sufficient capacity to sustain growth while operating on a 3-6 month deployment lead time is atrociously expensive, and that's without all of the financial calculation around depreciation/taxes/etc. The fact that cloud providers are able to ball all of that shit up into a flat opex rate for a server is unbelievably attractive.