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Amazon wasn't committing to larger spending in one year than the US defense budget.

• silveraxe93 11mo ago
  2025 US defense budget is $849.8 billion[1]. Had a look and: >In total, OpenAI aims to invest approximately $1.4 trillion in computing infrastructure – encompassing Google Cloud, Nvidia chips, and data center expansions. Huh yeah fair. That's more than the yearly defense budget. Absurd. Though I'm sure it's not _yearly_ - [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
  • phatfish 11mo ago
    The sovereign wealth funds and billionaires need something to do with all their available cash. It's no fun just watching the number increase anymore, that got boring quite a while ago.
    • coffeebeqn 11mo ago
      That is such an insane bet though! How many trillions can they have itching in their pockets