Hard to put into words what this means.
A $50M gift to help us transform care for patients with CSF leaks.
Iโm incredibly grateful, humbled by the trust, and feel an enormous responsibility to make sure this changes what is possible for these patients.
A remarkable day. And really, just the beginning.
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I disagree. That ship has sailed. There are no moderate Republicans any more. (The tiny number of prominent Rs who criticized that post said nothing about the Haitian "eating dogs" or countless other openly racist positions by senior admin officials.) Republicans are now the MAGA party and all the accompanying racism, corruption, anti-free market positions, and warmongering
"If data center construction were to stop, it wouldnโt just reduce growth by 1 percentage point. It would also turn companiesโ optimism into pessimism, as they realized that the AI boom was going to be throttled by NIMBYs and populists. ...
Changing optimism into pessimism is a classic 'animal spirits shock' or 'expectations shock' โ something that reduces aggregate demand. If hyperscalers and AI-positive companies and equipment manufacturers stop spending big, there will be fewer dollars going to construction workers, engineers, and many other workers. ...
@drgurner@WillManidis Not a pause on datacenters - just a pause on new ERCOT approvals until the 400GW project pipeline can be reviewed. Texas needs to understand which of those projects are real versus phantom projects that will never get built.
@Jesse_Livermore There are right and wrong ways to design data centers next to communities. This is clearly an example of the former. The answer is not to ban data centers, but rather to make sure the developers do it responsibly.