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Worked at company, forget the name (Williams something?) but they were the peak IT when I started my career in Tulsa, 2000 or so. They were laying fiber, but mostly lighting dark fiber. They were the future! Best employer in town! Crashed and burned, hard.
But as you said, those resources were laid to be exploited. Guess whoever figures out how to exploit the coming AI wreckage will lead the next wave of tech. Is that even going to be possible?!
Funny story; My camp is outside a town of 900 souls, most of those in the surrounding countryside. The ISP just ran fiber! There's a stub-out at the end of my "block"! Totally uninhabited but for my weekly visits, but imagine that. Fiber everywhere now.
also must add:
fuuuuuck oklahoma has fiber to the block and I can't get it here? goddffffuuuuuuckking damnit comcast sucks so much balls
Camp is actually in rural NW Florida. :)
Driving down the dirt road I noticed new undergound infrastructure. Kinda weird because all those roads are private, not government, rednecks with tractors do the road maintenance. I was stunned to see a stub at the end of my abandoned street. I don't even have power or water!
that's the thing, gpus age like hot piss on a texas summer day. gonna be very interesting to see how these corpses are picked over.