Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Post by cpursley » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC

llamaimperative wrote: post #279

dekhn wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way I think about this project, along with all of Trump's plans, is that he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future. Yes, it would make money for stockholders. But it's much more than that: it's an empire-scale psychological game for leverage in the future.

> he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future. LOL Under Trump policies, China will win "in the future" on energy and protein production alone. Once we've speedrunned our petro supply and exhausted our agricultural inputs with unfathomably inefficient protein production, China can sit back and watch us crumble under our own starvation. No conflict necessary unde…

Post by oldpersonintx » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:36 AM UTC

PittleyDunkin wrote: post #336

serjester wrote: post #194

You have to keep in mind Microsoft is planning on spending almost 100B in datacenter capex this year and they're not alone. This is basically OpenAI matching the major cloud provider's spending. This could also be (at least partly) a reaction to Microsoft threatening to pull OpenAI's cloud credits last year. OpenAI wants to maintain independence and with compute accounting for 25–50% of their expenses (currently) [2]…

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Post by MaximilianEmel » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:37 AM UTC

Post by insane_dreamer » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #300

I'm confused and a bit disturbed; honestly having a very difficult time internalizing and processing this information. This announcement is making me wonder if I'm poorly calibrated on the current progress of AI development and the potential path forward. Is the key idea here that current AI development has figured out enough to brute force a path towards AGI? Or I guess the alternative is that they expect to figure…

Post by cpursley » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC

miltonlost wrote: post #230

whalesalad wrote: post #4

I'm watching the announcement live from the white house and something about this just feels so strange and dystopian.

For me it's watching a gay man grovel at the feet of one of the most anti-LGBT politicians, a day after Trump signed multiple executive orders that dehumanized Altman and the LGBT community. Every token thinks they're special until they're spent.