I’m pro-AI. I use it all the time. I max out my $200 claude subscription and own a strix halo.

The data center buildout makes no sense.

I don’t want to work for a Trump lapdog, so MAGA++ recruiters can go pound sand.

I don’t think SV leadership realizes how f—-ked they are.

Not building out data centers would mean your $200 spend would be $500 no? Just supply/demand wise

Only in the MAGA world are we somehow given a choice between NDA-laden, Coal powered loud turbine data center projects or no data centers at all.

Feels like there’s always been an easy middle ground no? I agree nothing in the MAGA world has forced tech to pursue it, but it’s always been there.

I suspect they just got a wake-up call. In one night they lost a friendly congress by a LARGE margin, many local elections including Texas AG and Gov just walked out of their lives. Voters all over the country made their feelings on this issue clear enough that it would be difficult to pin this response on a party rather than the people as a whole.

All of this was preceded by the first economic shocks of the bubble bursting, and now it's truly underway. By this time next week it's entirely possible there will be fewer SV "Leaders" in a position to do more than wonder when exactly it all went so wrong.

Hint: It was the beginning.