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"Because of the growing cost as more people use it for longer"
What's the over/under that the real reason is they're scavenging some of the servers for Copilot?
All the server Costs skyrocketing because of slop. We had it all man. 24/7 walmarts, $1 mcchickens, 30 dollar tb HDDs.
"Back in my day we had better tech for less."
"Whooooah! Tell us more about past times, grand papa! What was a terabyte like? Did you have your own console too?"
"Why, yes. In our living rooms. I actually had two, but many people had more."
"Whoooooah!"
I can answer factually. It's parts scarcity. They can't repair them. In fact, nothing is getting repaired right now. Just harvested from prod to go back into prod in another cluster. Source? I'd violate NDA.