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Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won't complain, and if their shit breaks they'll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.
Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I'm genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.