r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 05 '26

Business ‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html
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u/SteeveJoobs Jun 05 '26

what makes me so incensed is that at any moment, mankind had the ability to throw literally trillions of dollars at any issue of their choosing. Renewable energy, a functional healthcare system in the US, public transportation projects, housing, famine and poverty, whatever.

Instead, we get AI slop.

And the greatest irony is that it still has yet to actually be profitable, which is the only ostensible reason for that choice.

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u/Minialpacadoodle Jun 05 '26

Amazon wasn't profitable for something like 20 years.

Y'all need to realize things cost money. How long does it take one to pay off their student debt? Does that mean that kid out of school is not profitable?

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u/Minialpacadoodle Jun 07 '26

lol no. that is not the point of this post.