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I disagree.

We have been living on the investment of previous centuries and decades in the West for close to 40 years now. Everything is broken but that didn't matter because everything that needed a functioning physical economy had moved to the East.

AI is the first industrial breakthrough in a century that needs the sort of infrastructure that previous industrial revolutions needed: namely a ton of raw power.

The bubble is laying bare just how terrible infrastructure is and how we've ignored trillions of maintenance to give a few thousand people tax breaks they don't really need.



Bridges can be used for decades, your brand new GiGaAiFaRm will be fully deprecated by 2030 already.

All the infrastructure will be useless when the data centers move to the next city/state offering a tax cut.


A power line can be used for a century.


Sure, if you have something worth powering at the end of it.


The same is true of all infrastructure from roads to water pipes.

You are being obtuse for the sake of AI doomerism.


>AI is the first industrial breakthrough in a century

Is it?


Yeah, I don't know about that.


Why not follow the time-honoured approach and put the data centres in low-income countries?


Because you only do that once the tech has been comodatized and you have wrung all the benefit for your country that you can.

The British didn't industrialise Indian for a reason.



I assume they don't have good enough power infrastructure.




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