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Trump on AI data centers:

"I'm letting them build their own power plants. They're building the most beautiful; you've never seen power plants like this.

Communities that don't take a data center, they're making a mistake, because it means jobs, and it means tremendous tax revenue coming into the towns and cities that take them.

The smart ones are saying, "I want them so badly." "

I'm gonna do a GPT session later on how many square feet of DC floor space exist, how many chips are needed per square foot of compute, how much power is needed, and what's the production rate of known power plants and known fabs.

I think the answer is going to prove that there's no way these things can actually be datacenters, they're just building empty warehouses.

@cjd @Terry i asked how long it would take to build the computer components for all the planned data centers.

@captainslow @cjd they're saying this is gonna be a bubble to rival 2008. Possibly worse, way way worse.

I think AI is going to be kind of a weird side-show distraction in the collapse. If these are empty buildings, then we're not talking about THAT MUCH money, it's more of a prosperity Potemkin Village ("don't worry about the crash, AGI is coming, look at these big (empty) buildings")

The real crash is probably gonna start with some shit like car loans, or Japan.

@cjd @captainslow Holy shit the cripple is now coming out against AI data centers