What We Lost - by Matthew Hughes - What We Lost
A newsletter about how the tech products we use got worse, and how they're ruining our lives.| whatwelost.substack.com
A newsletter about how the tech products we use got worse, and how they're ruining our lives.| whatwelost.substack.com
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris As ever, thank you for subscribing to Where's Your Ed At Premium. Email me at ez@betteroffline.com with the subject header "Premium" sometime if you have a question. Please ask your friends to subscribe too. Based on recent reporting by| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
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Microsoft announces $80B in CapEx for 2025 focused on Azure cloud, AI infrastructure, global data center expansion, and sustainable computing.| Data Center News from Datacenters.com
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A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed Statement[s] of Qualifications (SQQs)," which it added| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
