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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on whether the AI boom is like the canal boom (fizzled), or the railroad boom (still going, arguably underinvested).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Except the railway boom isn't still going... it unarguably, unambiguously did fizzle, just like the canal boom before it, and for exactly the same reason too: it was replaced by a superior technology. In the case of canals, that was railways. In the case of the railways, that was motorised road-going vehicles.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'm pretty sure the above rhetoric was about the canal and data centers. Railroad was a side topic. So I choose to interpret it as within 7 years, data centers are gonna be repurposed into big box stores or filled with cobwebs & left to crumble to dust.

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