I dunno, the bit about dedicating more data center capacity to customers rather than in-house use seems to suggest that Microsoft are acknowledging that AI is a bubble that doesn't provide any real value but they think the bubble still has some life left yet and they can make a buck selling compute to other suckers visionary investors.
Pretty much, yes. But don't worry, it's not like Trump passed massive tax cuts in his last term that have left the US over leveraged with >100% of GDP in debt and a $1.6T deficit or anything that leaves the US particularly vulnerable to bond sell offs.
What's that? Oh. Well at least there isn't some sort of financial bubble waiting to burst and take the economy with it at the same time.
Sorry, hang on a second, just getting some news through... Oh. Oh dear. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Well, it was sort of OK for bits of it anyway.
In a significant shift to its security priorities, the US Department of Defense now considers security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere - not China - as its primary concern
Does this mean the "Pacific Pivot" cope will finally stop and yanks will admit that Trump just wants to burn down all their alliances?
When British planes are overhead, the Germans duck. When German planes are overhead, the British duck. When American planes are overhead, everyone ducks.
Old WWII joke, the only thing that's changed is that the Germans and British no longer need to duck for each other...
All versions of skyblock I've played have had a way to get lava from nothing but the starting tree, so it's not a softlock just potentially tedious to get back to that point.