20% of Meta's salaries is still a fraction of the cost of just one of their proposed data centers. Two things are true here: 1) AI is stupidly expensive and has no meaningful ROI (financially speaking). 2) Layoffs are continued to be blamed on AI, when poor decisions by humans are actually to blame.

60 percent? Hell, I might buy a sub if any of these products were close to that

You just know a Patch Tuesday in the near future is going to turn this on by accidentâ¦

When you build a network of people who abandon another platform out of spite, you know exactly how your own network will end eventually. It never works long term.

The Defense Production Act has been around for a long time, and it is actually actively used for some purpose by every President elected in the past 70+ years. This should not be a surprise.

At the end of this manufactured so-called crisis, Apple may very well be the last personal computer manufacturer as we know them today.

Eventually the AI companies will run out of funding and the memory and storage demand will plummet. But as for when that will happen, who knows?

This is pretty much just lip service, not like anything is ever going to change in the world because of decrees like this

Did they even think about asking if they needed Next.js (or a clone) in the first place?

> You could achieve a massive cost savings if you ported it to Java and hosted it on your internal x86/commodity servers or a cloud.

This may have been a popular path in the early 2000s with Sun, but it is a much more complex choice today.

Java what - Java SE, Jakarta EE, Spring, or something else? Which runtime? And which company will you rely on for long-term support? If you are modernizing the platform, it may also be worth considering options beyond x86, such as ARM.

It is hard enough for techies to answer those questions confidently, let alone executives who make the decision. All you need in corporate land is an ounce of doubt to influence a decision.

Not only works, it likely works better than any new junk that replaces it.

Yep, will be fun when they see all the downstream things that source from those COBOL programs that now also need updating.

They are hiring three interns instead of the previous one? Bravo!

I guess we're not going to talk about the billions in tax breaks Democrat-leaning areas gave to Amazon, then?

Just to be clear: both sides routinely do this, and it's wrong when they both do it. But if you're going to complain about taxes, at least discuss the full picture.

My future pool and spa chain of stores is just waiting to capitalize on these AI data centers going bust!

But also there is no reason to release this to script kiddies to run amok.