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by ceejayoz 4129 days ago
> They already have core competencies in power, land, maintenance, staffing, R&D, etc that are sunk costs.

Their cloud offerings expanding mean more power use, more land use, more maintenance, more staffing, more R&D. It's not all sunk cost.

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But the point of the graph is that these together << the price they can charge for the service. That's what profit is.
Of course they're making money off it.

Claiming that a 20-30% reduction in raw hardware costs means you should see the entire service's cost go down 20-30% ignores those non-hardware costs, though.