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Comment by kmoser

> But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices.

This reminds me of the early days of AOL when they received so much traffic that their (dial-up) lines became inaccessible. In a rational world, their stock would have suffered because their service degraded, but instead their stock rose based on the optics of increased demand.

parent kmoser 2 months ago

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