Edge based storage is very very viable, and very very cheap, people still use Apple / Google Photos (consumers don’t want any friction).
Coorperate people likely just want “the best” and are happy to pay a lot for it to make their workforce more efficient.
It’s hard for me to guess where the data center buildout will go, eventually there will be an oversupply, but we haven’t hit that yet, and at the moment the companies owning these high capacity data centers appear to be making lots of very real money in leases to hyper scalers, hard to imagine this premium continuing, but we need to see where demand for cloud based LLMs tops out.
Coorperate people likely just want “the best” and are happy to pay a lot for it to make their workforce more efficient.
It’s hard for me to guess where the data center buildout will go, eventually there will be an oversupply, but we haven’t hit that yet, and at the moment the companies owning these high capacity data centers appear to be making lots of very real money in leases to hyper scalers, hard to imagine this premium continuing, but we need to see where demand for cloud based LLMs tops out.