for microsoft to get a bunch of cheap datacenters while hedge funds and r/wallstreetbets morons foot the bill

These AI data centre builds are packed with specific high power GPUs that are only useful for vector multiplication for AI, or mining cryptocurrency. To reduce overhead, they have kept non-GPU components to a minimum, because this lets you have more GPU processing per gigawatt. These data centres cannot be used for anything general purpose. General purpose computing needs CPUs, which they stocked as few of as possible.

this is some real liz from truanon thinking, i mean that in a positive way. The mechanisms of high capital money flow are made purposefully opaque and very few people are watching them, but they determine a lot of the material conditions we have to deal with