Posts Tagged: "Big Tech"

A cardboard-craft still life: on the left, a spool of dark cable labeled '.com' with loose cables and scattered cardboard microchip tiles; on the right, a stack of cardboard server-rack units labeled 'AI' — the dot-com era set beside the AI buildout.

AI vs dot-com:
where they rhyme and where they don't

The AI buildout is not just a bet on demand. It is a bet that compute remains scarce long enough to repay the cost of building it.

A cardboard-craft still life: a conveyor of paper payroll cards, each stamped with a worker icon and a dollar sign, feeds into a central press that outputs a row of black server-rack blocks — payroll being converted into compute.

Payroll for Compute

For the biggest technology companies, the most important AI-layoff mechanism is often capital allocation, not direct labor substitution.