Hyper scaling was always about cornering the computer market, It was never about providing us some vastly new and superior service.

Exactly, its a method of taking tens of billions of dollars in capital and buying a near monopoly. No other providers can compete if the hyperscalers buy all of the hardware, driving up the prices while also selling the service at a loss.

Nobody working out of their garage with a cool idea for a better service can compete if they can’t get hardware and have to charge double what the hyperscalers are charging because they can’t burn capital for years.

It’s a practice that should be considered illegal market manipulation, because that’s what it i

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