The data centers aren't for common man LLMs.
They're for the police state.
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines, believing it would free them. Instead, it allowed other men with machines to enslave them." (Paraphrased quote from Dune)
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That's what I've been telling people. Do you think they want to build a 1000 acre center just so they can plug another ai into Microslop Teams? No, its to run, parse, and manage all of the data gathered from cameras, phones, texts, everything, and build a navigable image of who they think you are.
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You're not seeing the bigger picture.
The data centers might give a slight economic boost in the short term, before becoming an economic disaster in some 5-10 years!
More like months.
Every single time this meme is posted, it is pointed out that the number in the above part is delusionally low. And yet the meme is reposted again and again both on reddit and on Lemmy and god knows where else.
500 million could buy you a fleet of 150 buses to start a bus system for a small town.
Sure, it won't buy you a coast-to-coast rail system, but no one said that was what the 500m was trying to afford.
I think the lack of specificity in "US Government officials" implies national, federal government and not small town municipal official. Calling the latter "US Government officials" feels weird. I guess a federal government official could approve funding for a local government somewhere, though.
I think this is just a case of sloppy memesmanship.
I'd slow that to 50 busses and that way you have reserve for accidents and maintenance. Also, they can be fancier busses if we have fewer of them
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Right? Needs more data center dollars.
We’re having trouble finishing the light rail spur that is intended to serve my neighborhood, and our transit authority needs $300 million to complete the design. The budget shortfall is $34.5 billion on a projected $42.5 billion project. And that’s one line for one neighborhood in one city.
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Oh have you not heard the Trump-class battleships are going to cost $275 billion! https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/05/trump-class-battleship-program-will-cost-275-billion-cbo-report-says/
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The government isn't paying to build that datacenter, the company that wants it is paying.
Everyone is more amenable to things when someone else buys it.
the hyperloop scam showed as much.
No, you don’t understand.
The $500 million is money the government has to pay to have a public good built.
Whereas the $50 billion is money invested corporations, which they got from their customers… and the government as incentives, tax breaks, and other magic that normal people can’t have. And it makes a private asset instead of a public good.
So obviously the $50 billion is less money.
$500 Million (500,000,000) = 1% of $50 Billion (50,000,000,000).
Unless the end goal is entirely different.
The following areas have seen insane increases in both interest and spending lately:
- AI data centers (capable of more than just LLM training and operation)
- Flock and other surveillance cameras
- Online identity verification
You could probably write several more items to the list, but add just these three and what do you get?
It's becoming clearer and clearer, with more and more irrefutable evidence that this AI craze is going nowhere. Sure, it's pretty useful for a handful of tasks. Not nearly enough to justify even a fraction of money spent on it though. And yet both governments and oligarchs keep pumping more money into it.
Is it unreasonable to suspect an ulterior motive? One that is sure to benefit them tremendously if successful?
People need to stop shitting on ChatGPT. Glue on pizza is the culinary revolution of 2026!
It was actually Google’s Gemini that suggested this if I remember correctly.
Because it scrapped the data from Chat of course.
You can put glue on pizza?
Subject to natural limitations of the pizza's area you can put anything in it except pineapple.
Oh thank god, I thought it was fruit in general! I was hidding and eating strawberry pizza like I was a criminal all along, so silly
Tomatoes are technically fruit, IIRC.
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