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Since when is leasing capacity in a datacenter considered investing?

• irishcoffee 4mo ago
  Why does one lease something? To provide value equal or better to the cost, no?
  • fwip 4mo ago
    If I lease an apartment for two years, that's not an investment.
    • dmix 4mo ago
      In accounting terms it’s not an investment it’s an operating expense or in your example a personal expense, but if you leased a property and operated a business (ie an AirBnB for an apartment) it could be considered as part of an investment as it’s a means to make a profit.
      • nemomarx 4mo ago
        that would be an investment in your own business, not in your landlord right?
        • dmix 4mo ago
          The landlords business is the rent, your business goal would be making a profit more than the lease. This is pretty simple stuff
• phil21 4mo ago
  I dunno, I’ve never leased space in a datacenter without considering it an investment. And one I expected to perform significantly better than either the risk free rate or just passive investment into the stock market. Same reason I invest in capital equipment to put into the space I lease.
• nonethewiser 4mo ago
  >Since when is leasing capacity in a datacenter considered investing? You misunderstand. The comment notes Google's initial shares, which is referring to a roughly 6.1% stake in SpaceX.
• WorldPeas 4mo ago
  it's about squatting a percent that cannot be taken, there are many companies I know of who have large capacity reservations they don't use only because they hope to use it /soon/ and don't want to deal with cold start times. I remember when one used to be able to start a lambda labs on-demand h100 job and it'd start in 30 minutes, now you'd be lucky if it happened the same day