dan

I generally respect this guy's opinion (I probably use the term "enshitification" multiple times a week

A lot of people don't use it the way he used it though. He used it specifically for two sided markets (eg a service that has both businesses/advertisers and personal users) where the focus shifts to the business customers, but people have started using it to mean anything that used to be good but isn't good any more.

Not all those companies have their own data centers, but plenty of them would rent space in data centers. You can rent anything from individual servers owned by the data center ("dedicated servers", like what you can get from Hetzner), to space in a shared rack, to an entire 42U rack dedicated to you, to an entire cage (or several cages).

(a cage is just a part of the data center that's sectioned off in a locked metal mesh cage so only one customer can access it, while still allowing plenty of airflow to and from the servers)

The post is about data centers though.

No serious business is hosting an internet accessible serve in their office.

There's some dots on the map in places where I know for sure that there's no data center. I think people have submitted addresses of some tech company headquarters for example.

Most new builds by the larger companies are pretty big though, even if they're not dedicated to AI.

The site explicitly mentions "AI data centers", but how do you differentiate AI data centers from... non-AI data centers I guess?

I understand the anti-AI sentiment and environmental issues, etc. but I also think a lot of non-technical people don't realise that literally everything they do online uses a data center.

Makes sense.

People that invest into Nasdaq 100 are already accepting higher risks though. I've got some QQQM but it's a pretty small part of my portfolio.

It's pretty common for stock to drop after IPO. This is just a bigger drop than usual.

I'm glad S&P didn't give in to SpaceX's demand to add them to the S&P 500.

If you're going to all that effort, why not just use something that's powered by OpenStreetMap like OsmAnd?

That fear of the company letting you go for anything at any time…with a union they just can’t do that

They also can't do that in countries with workers rights. This should be a standard right, not something that requires the workers to unionize.

Edit: I understand that unions make it easier to enforce.

What if I like my workplace being ionized?