Comment by noosphr

Comment by noosphr a day ago

10 replies

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.

lm28469 16 hours ago

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.

  • noosphr 15 hours ago

    A power line can be used for a century.

    • lm28469 11 hours ago

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

      • noosphr 10 hours ago

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

        You are being obtuse for the sake of AI doomerism.

incompatible a day ago

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