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It appears this basically locks out Google, Amazon and Meta. Why are we declaring OpenAI as the winner? This is like declaring Netscape the winner before the dust settled. Having the govt involved in this manner can’t be a good thing.
Last year, sama goal was 5 to 7T. Now he is going with 100B, with option for another 400B. Huge numbers, but it still feels like a bit of a down turn.
> This project will ... also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies. > All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop ... AGI for the benefit of all of humanity. Erm, so which one is it? It is amply demonstrable from events post WW2 that US+allies are quite far from benefiting all of humanity & in fact, in some cases, it assists an allied minority at an ex…
Maybe only Americans and their allies qualify as human, according to them
~$125B per year would be 2-3% of all domestic investment. It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country. If the electric grid — particularly the interconnection queue — is already the bottleneck to data center deployment, is something on this scale even close to possible? If it's a rationalized policy framework (big if!), I would guess there's some major permitting reform announcement coming soon.
Don't worry, they said they are doing it in Texas where the power grid is super reliable and able to handle the massive additional load.
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A fraction of this money invested in building homes would end the homelessness problem in the U.S.
I guess the one silver lining here is that when the likely collapse happens, we'll have more clean energy infrastructure to use for more useful things.
Any clues to how they plan to invest $500 billion dollars? What infrastructure are they planning that will cost that much?
For those interested, it looks like Albany, NY (upstate NY) is very likely one of the next growth sites.
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