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hyperbovine
4 months ago
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Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US ...
The railroad buildout was a lot more, idk, tangible. Most of that money was spent employing millions of people to smelt iron, lay track, build bridges, blow up mountains, etc. It’s a lot more exciting than a few freight loads of overpriced GPUs.
wr2
4 months ago
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Also a good point - railroads for sure brought a lot more optimism.
LLMs+Data centres on the other hand...
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