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JonathanBeuys ◴[] No.45788466[source]
I have not looked into Meta, but when I look at the growth of Alphabet's cloud revenue, it looks pretty solid:

https://x.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1984882268817519036

That is revenue from real world usage of their datacenters. Usage their customers would not pay for if it did not have a positive ROI.

A pretty stable growth of 30% per year for the last 5 years. At a current level of about $50B per year.

What is the value of it, if it continues like this for another decade? Revenue would be at roughly $1T/year then.

In the face of this real usage and the growth of it, spending tens of billions of dollars on building out infrastructure looks ok to me.

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oskarkk ◴[] No.45788517[source]
> What is the value of it, if it continues like this for another decade? Revenue would be at roughly $1T/year then.

That's a big "if", usually things don't grow at 30% per year for 15 years.

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1. anilgulecha ◴[] No.45788550[source]
Cloud spend overall has - CAGR of 30-35% from 2007 to 2025.