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The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them.
by eirikbakke 5mo ago
The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them.
- swed420 5mo agoLMAO would love to see that math (which of course would need to account for the cost to the end user of constant rug-pulling, enshitification, github struggling to maintain one 9 of availability, privacy invasion, rampant mental health issues and political division from profit-based social media, etc)
- eirikbakke 5mo agoI pay $100/month for Claude Max and it's like having a (nearly) free, very competent employee. Value _way_ exceeds $100/months. But there's a datacenter that has to run that.
- swed420 5mo agoYou are a fringe minority compared to all of the other "customers" suffering the side effects outlined above that nobody signed up for.
- eirikbakke 5mo agoThe retort is to the statement that the U.S. war in Iran is "pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters". People are conflating destructive and productive activities. These are fundamentally different.
- swed420 5mo agoAgain, people like you are a tiny subset of all data center "users"
- palmotea 5mo ago> The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them. You seem to be assuming an always-rational market, run by the mythical homo economicus. But as they say "the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent." You can't infer that a set of decisions is rational just because market participants made them.