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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
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