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Platformonomics TGIF #47: April 12, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Clown Week is here! 🤡🤡🤡 News Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag As the Clown Week cornerstone, we call a winner in the CAPEX Clown Car Race: (Oracle left,…
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Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag
We’ve used capital expenditures (CAPEX) to separate the clouds from the clowns for over a decade. Clouds consume copious CAPEX. Clowns confabulate. It is time for another inspection tour of Clown City (previous visits: 2018, 2020, 2022). Once a bustling stop on the cloud-washing promotional circuit, Clown City is now but a shadow of its…
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Platformonomics TGIF #46: April 5, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. The clown culture of over-promising and under-delivering has rubbed off, but (CAPEX) Clown Week is still coming! The artwork is fabulous. I did a return appearance on the TelcoDR podcast to talk…
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Platformonomics TGIF #45: March 29, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. The last two weeks have been eventful, so we have a lot to cover after my absence. Buckle up! News Amazon CAPEX Plans Bloomberg looks at cloud CAPEX and the accompanying “mad…
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Platformonomics TGIF #44: March 15, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. No newsletter next week. But I hope to get the Clown Week update out before that. News Tik Tok’s Call to Arms: Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers, Registered and Unregistered Foreign Agents Unite!…
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Platformonomics TGIF #43: March 8, 2024
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Short edition this week, despite the insanity. But Clown Week cometh! (Think Shark Week for CAPEX obsessives). News Behold the Nuclear Cloud Previous: Cloud Power Up, Nuclear Powered Cloud Data Centers Are…