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LarsDu88today at 3:12 PM0 repliesview on HN

The world has seen this play out before. Launch a service, sell it at a loss to achieve hypergrowth, raise prices add ads and enshittify.

The thing that is difference is the scale and the hardware. When Britain underwent its rail building boom in the 1850s, the bubble bursting left the kingdom with 150 years worth of infrastructure. Unless we invest in energy buildouts, we will be left with billions in rapidly depreciating GPUs