AI of the Coast: The 5-Year Roadmap to General AI

AI of the Coast: The 5-Year Roadmap to General AI

Amazon spent $80 billion building data centers. Your phone’s GPU is about to make half of them obsolete.

AWS Just Lost the AI War (They Just Don’t Know It Yet)

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Jiri "Skzites" Fiala
Oct 23, 2025
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I’m sitting in a cloud architecture review with a company spending $4.3 million annually on AWS for AI inference. They’re proud of their optimization work—they got the cost down from $7.1 million last year.

I ask one question: “Why are you paying Amazon to ship data 2,000 miles to their data center when your users have more compute power in their pockets…

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