Hyperscalers will do anything to shave a microcent off pluggable transceiver costs
jwt0625 · x · 2026-10-08
A datacenter-industry meme roasting hyperscalers for going to extreme lengths to cut pluggable transceiver costs by even a single microcent.
The poster says they still can't get over it. It reflects how, at hundreds-of-thousands-of-port scale, tiny per-unit cost differences compound into massive total savings—driving some pretty questionable engineering trade-offs.
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