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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products):
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence
2026-09-16T08:03:20.363Z