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Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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but there's profit to be had in building them.
"profit"
Makes the stock price go up, that's the only metric that matters.
hey, it also makes the bubble inflate!
Ah, the profit of $–344,000,000,000
They've already made their profit and will be long gone by the time that bill is due.