10/ Local communities are raising legitimate concerns about data center resource needs, including electricity, water and land. Big AI companies must compensate and work together with these communities to address these concerns in a mutually beneficial way. When all sides put in a good faith effort, a win-win-win consensus can emerge---for tech companies, localities, and our country.
11/ Bottom line: As AI and cloud infrastructure becomes more central to economic and national security, data centers are as strategically important today as highways, ports, and power plants were in the past. We must build them now.
9/ Every industry now depends on cloud infrastructure: healthcare, logistics and supply chains, finance, telecom---even the electric grid itself increasingly relies on data center-hosted software to operate effectively and efficiently.
8/ National security matters too. Sensitive government, defense, and financial systems should depend on domestic data infrastructure rather than rely on capacity that could be vulnerable to foreign disruption or control.
7/ AI and cloud apps will use data centers somewhere. The question is whether those data centers will be foreign or domestic. Domestic data centers bring jobs, revitalized communities, and technical know-how. Foreign compute infrastructure leads to a deflated economy, loss of expertise, and increased security risks. Let's not outsource compute like we did with manufacturing.
6/ Data center construction is a massive economic win for local communities. Individual projects bring billions in investment dollars, new construction jobs, ongoing technical roles, expanded local tax bases, improved community standard of living, and a revival of the middle class. Data centers are the manufacturing plants of the 21st century.
5/ China is moving aggressively on data centers and AI domination. Whichever country wins in AI, wins in defense, scientific research, economic growth, and global superiority.
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4/ AI depends on compute capacity. Training large language models and building applcations on top of them takes enormous processing power. The countries and companies with the most data center capacity will have a real edge in AI---and this race has serious geopolitical implications.
3/ Every AI model, software app, streaming service, and digital transaction runs on physical servers somewhere. Data centers are that "somewhere." No data centers, no modern Internet---it's that simple.
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President Trump saved American sports.
Even ultra-liberal leagues like the NBA admit it in private.
Jared Kushnerโs brother just purchased the iconic LA Lakers.
Fundamentally, sports and wokeness are incongruous.
One teaches grit and resilience. The other fosters victimhood and lack of agency.
Another reason why the 2024 Presidential Election was so crucial.
WNBA is losing money and is being subsidized by the NBA.
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Florida has been the tip of the spear against this insanity. And itโs prospering under Republican leadership as a result.
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Nextdoor is still using their secondary PERM-job-only job board to hide jobs from American applicants
Should they be allowed to sponsor visas for fully remote $180k jobs like this, if they don't post them on their public facing career website?