Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says
crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoI 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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s ten billion.
crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works 6 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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One contract from one state agency worth 1% of all your gross revenues is substantial.
Uh huh. Okay.
crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, you were trying to argue AWS is basically for the NSA and cops. That hilariously false claim is what I’ve been consistently rebutting this entire time. You’re moving the goalposts and continuously have this entire conversation, which is why this is a dull and bad conversation. You didn’t start out arguing that 1% is “substantial.” You made a rather different argument. I never disputed that a contract amounting to 1% of a company’s annual revenues is significant, I disputed that that 1% means AWS is “just a cop shop.” Because it’s not.