That means America must build the servers, power the data centers, control the chips, secure the models, and govern the technology through human conscience and national interest.
The doomer class wants paralysis. China wants delay. Activist funders want moratoriums, scare pieces, and local obstruction while Beijing subsidizes its own buildout. That is strategic suicide.
Regulate abuses, punish misuse, and keep humans in command—but build. America cannot win the future by letting paid fear merchants unplug it.
The problem with data centers is that technology is going to move past them. They won’t be needed and will become massive eyesores in communities, a new rust belt if you will. Here is an idea: if data centers are vital to national security, place them on military bases throughout the country. Put the military in charge of maintaining them and dismantling them when they are no longer needed.
Good detective work in tracing the funding of much of data center opposition to China. However, you do not address the substantive critiques of data centers: high electricity and water rates for consumers. Unless data centers bring their own supply, they must pay taxes sufficient to offset their demand driven cost increases.
I like the content of your writing but the AI-generated style makes it increasingly unreadable. "It's not X, it's Y" is an example of an AI style tic that grates. It probably saves you time to write AI slop, but it's awful. Too bad for the content.
AI is not God, not man, and not a moral authority. It is a tool. Man serves God, and AI serves man.
https://luthmann.substack.com/p/babel-with-a-server-farm
That means America must build the servers, power the data centers, control the chips, secure the models, and govern the technology through human conscience and national interest.
The doomer class wants paralysis. China wants delay. Activist funders want moratoriums, scare pieces, and local obstruction while Beijing subsidizes its own buildout. That is strategic suicide.
Regulate abuses, punish misuse, and keep humans in command—but build. America cannot win the future by letting paid fear merchants unplug it.
The problem with data centers is that technology is going to move past them. They won’t be needed and will become massive eyesores in communities, a new rust belt if you will. Here is an idea: if data centers are vital to national security, place them on military bases throughout the country. Put the military in charge of maintaining them and dismantling them when they are no longer needed.
Understood, but there is no denying the harmful impacts of data centers on local residents. . .
Well done. I did some infographics on the Kevin O'Leary AI debacle.
"The Foreign Plot to Kill American AI"
https://directorblue.substack.com/p/the-foreign-plot-to-kill-american?utm_source=publication-search
Good detective work in tracing the funding of much of data center opposition to China. However, you do not address the substantive critiques of data centers: high electricity and water rates for consumers. Unless data centers bring their own supply, they must pay taxes sufficient to offset their demand driven cost increases.
I appreciate you shining the light on the breadcrumb Trail
I like the content of your writing but the AI-generated style makes it increasingly unreadable. "It's not X, it's Y" is an example of an AI style tic that grates. It probably saves you time to write AI slop, but it's awful. Too bad for the content.