2. Associating grid investments with the AI data center build-out seems like a really good way to turn public opinion against grid investment
“De La Espriella has proposed opening 10 ‘mega-prisons’ and said he wants to foster closer ties to the U.S. and Israel. He plans to slash 700,000 government employee and contractor jobs,
‘put God back into our children’s classes,’ and build a ‘Miracle Homeland.’”
It’s true that in some hermetically sealed theoretical world AI data center development *could* deliver some broader public goods, but in that world we would already have the things people say those data centers could, theoretically, deliver. Extremely circular, fantastical thinking
Feel a bit crazed hearing the popularism set argue that major private investments will actually be well-liked and create public goods this time. 1. That was a major premise of Bidenomics, and most people didn’t know it happened…
