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discodave on April 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders

The DCs are assets with 5-20 year lifespans but the servers depreciate over 3-5 years.

Amazon has also been doing a bunch of capital lease shenanigans so they could expand AWS without having to report GAAP losses over the last few years.

fabulist on April 8, 2016 [–]

Genuinely curious, who sells, rebuilds, or otherwise "end of lifes" a datacenter after 5 years?

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