Any hope of a bailout for AI or data centers vaporized last night. If an AI company gets in trouble it will be a “let it burn” scenario.

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smith7018 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good. That's how America's free market is supposed to work.

	▲	snapplebobapple 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thats the only good thing to come out of this. The rest of it really highlights how we acrewed up violating personal liberty with overly agressive zoning and other regulation.

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walthamstow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why do you say that? TARP was extremely unpopular yet still happened.

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cguess 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People cared about TARP because these were companies managing their retirements and banks holding their savings. They had been around for 100 years+ and many had branches in their hometown.

Very few people know, or care, about AI companies in any way.

	▲	dh2022 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If AI companies go bust so will those retirements accounts (and the economy) So I think it is likely that AI companies will be bailed out when the bubble bursts. I guess the lesson multinationals learned from the 2008 financial crisis is that if you fail is better to fail really really really big.

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chasd00 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yes, happened under both a red and blue administration. It was the perfect example to show that political party is meaningless when it comes to financial bailouts.

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cmiles8 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Very different situation. Banks failing en-mass is very different than some VCs, private credit speculators, and AI bros losing their shirts.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Never underestimate the willingness of politicians to vote for pork.

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If an AI company gets in trouble it will be a “let it burn” scenario.

That's how things should work. Bailouts are socialism for corporations.

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jLaForest 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

thats called free market capitalism...

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ReptileMan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not at all. The reasonable democrats will be forced to clean this mess (and Iran) while spending their newly found political capital and pissing off their base.

AI bubble pops - they will vote bailouts if the situation is 2008 like. They will grudgingly support or even escalate the war in Iran because just leaving is not an option - so some stability is a must. They will support israel for the same reason.

And they will support data centers buildouts because ai is the future of economic growth.

Trump has created a mess in which there are few good moves. But they will own them.