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> .. Google's fleet undoubtedly has more machines than Amazon's in total ..

Given that this assertion is mandatory for your argument to hold water, actual numbers to support your claims are required here. And since Google and Amazon don't publicly share this data, where does that leave us?

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From 2009 to 2011, Google spent ~$8B on capital expenditures (buildings, property,& equipment) while Amazon spent ~$3B on capital expenditures. Given Google's scale, they probably have better economics than Amazon.

Technically, this argument is mandatory for an argument against me to hold water (that I was simply trying to say was a fair point against my original claim, even though many people were unfairly downvoting spdy for it). Feel free to discard the post if you'd like, which would leave us with the argument in my original post. I'm pretty confident in what I wrote, though.

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