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Better Offline — Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
Buzzing ratingBUZZING· 74%10m·2026-07-24·Technology

Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?

Better Offline

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how hyperscalers have wasted $1.1 trillion in capex on AI in a desperate attempt to sustain hypergrowth, and report on how without OpenAI’s claud spend, Microsoft Azure would’ve only grown 8% year-over-year in 2025. The Subprime Data Center Crisis:…

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