Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says

• crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t like defending Amazon, but your arguments are shockingly ignorant. Stop making things up on the spot and do a shred of research. The cost of the Wild and Stormy contract is half a billion, while AWS’s annual revenues are projected to top $100 billion this year.

  Less than half a percent of AWS’s annual revenues.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The cost of the Wild and Stormy contract is ~half a billion

    It’s ten billion.

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    • crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh huh, over the whole 10 year lifetime of the contract. This was explained in the article. If you take that $100 billion/yr gross revenue * the whole 10 year time frame, plus the $10 billion original ~$half billion, the proportion becomes $10.5 billion out of $1 trillion, which is, drumroll please… 1.05%

      Staggering.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the volume doubles to 1% of gross revenues

        One contract from one state agency worth 1% of all your gross revenues is substantial.

        you did catch me merely skimming the article because of how dull and bad this conversation is

        Uh huh. Okay.

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