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		mjd 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust? Did amazon.com go bust? Seems like I heard they were still in business as of a couple of years ago at least.

elevation 18 days ago [–]

The point was that Amazon wasn't independent from the frenzied, leveraged land grab that characterized the .COM bubble. Like many other companies, they were hiring aggressively until the bubble burst. Whether or not the companies went bust, a lot of people lost their jobs in a short time.

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