Chubby.Ai

Affordable Housing & Edge Factory-Datacenters today, walkable Factory College Towns tomorrow. Feed, House, & Self-Actualize Humans.

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Estimates range from 750,000 to over a million people living homeless within the USA.

Housing supply shortage estimates are around 4 million homes in the USA.

2 of the 8 billion humans on earth lack adequate access to toilets & clean water. That is 1 in 4 humans!

Why can a person live in a car or on the street, but we can’t build 200 square foot housing in most of the USA?

There are multiple pieces to the housing puzzle.

First is materials.

Then is zoning & codes.

Then we have labor.

Then we have supportive infrastructure such as roads, gas, electricity, communications, water, sewer, and waste water treatment.

And lastly is the actual energy to sustain it all.

Beyond that extends to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) style objections.

People don’t want developments near their homes that could lower the value or bring unwanted types of people.

If we segregate lower income, disabled, mentally ill, and any other people then we also have to maintain all the other supporting infrastructure for them to survive. Someone has to pay for it and it often falls into disrepair if we don’t have a mix of incomes paying taxes. This keeps people in poverty & creates an us vs them mentality.

I am not saying we should not protect society from dangerous people… that is entirely different.

A kid fresh out of high school or college doesn’t need a big place to live & are rarely even be able to afford it. They are then pushed into having roommates, living with a boyfriend or girlfriend too early, staying with parents, or pay for more space than they need.

A single adult may not even want or need a big space.

We can buy a brand new 200 square foot travel trailer camper for less than $35,000… on a 15 year loan, but good luck building or renting a home like that.

Trailer parks have proved for decades that factory built housing works for lower incomes, but comes with stigma, lack of walkability to necessary services or employment, among other issues.

Campgrounds & motels with long-term options have often turned into alternative housing options proving people can do it, but laws prevent new developments for such uses.

Society & the way we build housing must shift.

It is not simply housing, but also factories, educational facilities, and entire towns.

Densities, parking, supportive infrastructure, & more needs to shift as artificial intelligence outpaces human intelligence.

We can no longer live like we did in the past.

Developments of the future must take inclusivity, walkability, & quality of life into account.

Many of these ideas have existed for decades with visionaries seeking to build them, but were never actually built due to lack of funding.

Meanwhile, we now have OpenAI with over $100 billion to build AI data centers that no one wants in their backyards.

We have seen some mixed-use options that attempt to fix this, but education, factories, food production, & energy have not been included as core to them.

There is buzz & conspiracy theories about 15 minute cities where everything is within a 15 minute walk… outside of an Orwellian dystopian fear, there is no real reason to avoid such developments.

Data centers are being cancelled due to NIMBY, AI fear, & lack of water/power for massive centers that require more than entire cities.

There is now an effort to create distributed data center options to solve the gaps… but they lack community focus or solving human problems.

With the AI infrastructure buildout focused on housing, factories, & education… we can reshape how humans survive & thrive.

We no longer have the luxury of NIMBY & must begin 100-2,000 acre walkable communities (Factory College Towns) EVERYWHERE to solve these issues.

I believe that if we build 1,000 of these developments around the USA, we can absorb pockets of stranded energy that have gone unused to now power AI data centers, revitalize America, solve housing shortages, and improve quality of life.

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@Mat_Sherman We believe housing shortages / homelessness can be solved during the AI data center boom while helping improve community relations where pushback currently exists.

Arizona is 8th for homelessness in the country with rapid growth in the problem.

I would absolutely move there.

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You are talking about people who are already told to take shorter showers because of lack of water…

Then you are talking about people in the Midwest who were burned bad by industrialists of the past contaminating land.

When 20% of global fresh water is in the Great Lakes, you have to be extra cautious about what happens in the area.

If the industry would stop calling the people stupid who have concerns then we might be able to get somewhere.

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@christophersaum Just saw you funded a team out of Michigan Medicine. They spending much time around Stanford while in the Bay Area?

Michigan Medicine is really good. Ann Arbor is a really good place for them for that type of startup.

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@christophersaum From Michigan, but living in a tent in the Bay Area while working to solve homelessness & housing before a world exists where AI causes mass unemployment.

Love Michigan and there is some cool stuff happening there, but they should probably stay in SF for longer than the summer.

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@tatumturnup Stairs are hard… 3rd time was the charm for this one I saw yesterday.

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@hardeep_gambhir @Scobleizer This is exactly why I’m living in a tent while here. If we are going to solve housing / end homelessness, I need to fully understand homelessness by experiencing it here.

The homeless I spend a lot of time with aren’t into the startup scene, but at least they are real.

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@RichardHanania I’m at a data center conference right now and every single person is talking about how important it is to begin doing more for the community as they go into them.

Being against what he is saying is why the industry is getting so much pushback.

You could not be more wrong.

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@EricJorgenson It cannot just be leadership, the communities themselves have to start getting behind data centers or it will just turn people against the leadership.

Leaders cannot just welcome and allow data centers, they must also get the maximum for the community.

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@jhong I’m assuming yes because yesterday was really bad too. I could see so many particles in the air. My eyes were itching like crazy.

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@julianweisser @FedericoNoemie The hose part is funny.

Once lived in the utility closet of a startup & bathed in the utility sink (actually fit my whole in it to be able to wash).

Currently living in a tent in Palo Alto to be in the Bay Area rent free. Shower at the gym.

All founders should live extremes.

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@ExistentialEnso Every time I go to the library there are far more people on computers than reading books. It’s actually surprising when I see people reading books.

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@EthanChoi7 Fulfillment.

See plenty of money every day, but not a lot of fulfillment.

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@CalvinandNOBS @BowTiedXmas I’ve done both over the years.

Semi-retired at the moment in the Bay Area, waiting for a few technologies / ideologies to catch up.

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@scott_e_reed @mattparlmer Exactly why one guy investing $125,000 feels unserious.

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@CalvinandNOBS @BowTiedXmas The people who have hurt me the most in business did it to my face.

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@mil000 Why? I’ve been in the Bay Area for 3 months.

Tent was $70 & sleeping bag was $21… already had the clothes I needed.

Sleep better than ever being grounded…

My bed, clothes, gym membership, shampoo, & body wash are the least of my worries… food is by far my biggest concern.

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@treypicou One of my favorite adventures so far has been living in a tent in the Bay Area… they wouldn’t even have to go far.

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@realEstateTrent As a real estate guy, you shouldn’t be too surprised.

Small construction projects trigger people, many of these mega projects are on a whole new level of rural town disruption.

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@DanielleFong Know a woman: child died at 2 days old, has a transgender adult child, & had an adult child hit/killed by a car… the trans child is hard on her, but not nearly as hard on her as the other two.

You would think Elon would be smart enough to understand the damage he is doing.

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@brianmccallum If Elon would have solved Full Self Driving by now then air travel will be far less congested.