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It'll get used eventually. Just like the fiber optic cables built during the dotcom bubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_in_telec...

There were many companies in the mid 2000s that were viable only because they bought networks at a fraction of the cost spent to build them.

Manhattan sized data center sells to OnlyFans at half-price

You don't think OF has an application for realtime photogrammetry?

Well, combine that with holograms and you have a personalized strip club in your home.

In most states the women aren't allowed to completely strip so it would actually be better than a strip club.

Data centers don't age as well as fibre optic cables.

Sounds like a redistribution of wealth from VC-backed companies, to viable businesses. I'm okay with that.

Just like the Purple Hearts made for the invasion of Japan

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/75-years-later-pu...

Does fiber optic cable become obsolete? I don't really know. But I know servers do.

Fiber optic cable actually got better over time because multiplexing continued to improve. You could take dark fiber laid in the late 90s and put new transceivers at the ends and get much more bandwidth than anyone expected when the cable was laid.

Internet traffic kept growing throughout the dotcom bubble. That valuations got ahead of themselves didn't mean that there wasn't something real driving the hype.

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