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foobarian 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute cap...

I wonder if they are more than happy to let someone else take on the burden of the massive writedowns that are bound to hit in a couple of years.

no-name-here 23 days ago | [–]

Burden in terms of tax implications, or in terms of the investment possibly not being profitable?

jeffbee 24 days ago | [–]

Perhaps. It also seems to insulate Google from the risk that air quality regulators will be unexpectedly reinvigorated, while still providing to Google the benefits of xAI's lawlessness.

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