Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ - eviltoast
  • self@awful.systems
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    We’re sure phrases like “novel types of debt structures” won’t give you flashbacks to the 2008 financial crisis.

    I feel like John taking the Soy Sauce for the first time and knowing how many people are gonna explode

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    “novel debt structures” sounds like a sound investment. (This is sarcasm.)

    I wonder if I can get on a waiting list to buy like 3 of the Nvidia GPUs after this blows up in everyone’s faces…

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      not many people are quite aware that the word “systemic” is economics jargon meaning “RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT”