Not many. Money is not a perfect abstraction. The raw materials used to produce 100B worth of Nvidia chips will not yield you many hospitals. AI researcher with 100M singup bonus from Meta ain't gonna lay you much brick.

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thwarted an hour ago | parent [-]

It's not about the consumption of raw materials or repurposing of the raw materials used for chips. peterlk said:

> How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. could we build with the money we’re spending on pretraining models that we throw away next quarter?

It's about using the money for to build things that we actually need and that have more long term utility. No one expects someone with a 100M signing bonus at Meta to lay bricks, but that 100M could be used to buy a lot of bricks and pay a lot of brick layers to build hospitals.

	▲	OGEnthusiast an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Seems like the main issue is that taxes in America are far too low.
	▲	scoofy 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, you're just talking about spending money. Google isn't trying to build data centers for fun. These massive outlays are only there because the folks making them think they will make much more money than they spend.