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Does Stanford actually have that kind of resources? Based, say, on Randal Munroe's estimation of Google's capacity?
by lrem 4y ago
Does Stanford actually have that kind of resources? Based, say, on Randal Munroe's estimation of Google's capacity?
- joshuamorton 4y agoYou can get a better estimate from Google's CapEx in it's financials. Stanford's endowment is ~30 billion. Google's CapEx is ~20 billion a year and has been for the last 4 years or so. You can weasel about exactly how much of that is attributable to search as opposed to other initiatives, (but even if you look back a decade to when Google was mostly search, it was running a CapEx of ~5 billion/year). So even making pretty favorable estimations, you'd be looking at Stanford being bankrupt around now.