"Dark Computing" vs. "Dark Fibre"

In the run up to the early 2000s stock market crash which saw the Nasdaq go from 5,000 to below 1,000, there was a massive over-construction of optical fibre linkages. This lead to a colossal level of over-capacity and reams of unused “dark” fibre. Are we seeing the same mass corporate groupthink again with the colossal investments by the likes of OpenA…