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dofm • yesterday at 4:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Yeah. But I suspect this is about the difficulty in actually getting data centres built, more than it is that demand is radically overstated (which I suspect it is).


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the_sleaze_ • yesterday at 8:40 PM

It's about the debt the companies took and the cash they need to maintain it. The debt will be written down before they can pay.

These companies are rent-seeking landlords for the providers themselves. Which model they serve has no fundamental bearing on the business, the cost of the rent they can charge does.