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Maybe not a railroad but I imagine the data centers won't be worth nothing...

I imagine the AI bubble bust will be like the .com bubble bust. Of the 20 (or whatever number) of companies that have a shot, something like 3 will survive and do well. The problem is we don't know which 3.

Many, many, dot-com era companies died during the .com bubble and tons of money was lost, but not everything. For example: Amazon.com, eBay.com, Intuit, etc.





The data centers will depreciate in value way faster than railroads do, and infinitely faster than the land underneath the railroads do.

The AI boom is way way way bigger than dotcom was.




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