overbuilt

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“We haven’t done that yet because we think that we have a use for the compute. Obviously if we get to a point where we feel like we have overbuilt, then that is an option.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

But the city became overbuilt and the housing boom went bust in the mid-1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

By the end, the playing space, like the once pristine frontier, is so overbuilt you can see little else.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

But it overbuilt — and later began shuttering projects and renting out space in some of its warehouses.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

That suggested that Berkeley’s thirty-seven-inch machine was already overbuilt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik