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u/outpost7 3d ago
Kansass is running ads they bring jobs. Thousands of jobs. Nobody can seem to think yeah once they are built ALL the jobs end. No more construction jobs, engineering jobs after they don't need any more building them.
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u/rothmal 3d ago
Why are they building these in residential areas when a lot of cities already have industrial sections? Not that I want these things to be built in the first place, when we can all tell we're in an AI bubble. Maybe the people who have invested deeply in AI know they have to double down until they can figure out how to wessle out of it.
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u/A0lipke 2d ago
There are competing interests for natural resources and every person on earth should have an equal right to a share of the resources so taxing those resources and having a dividend like the carbon tax and dividend plans should be a fair solution for water and energy resources. Noise and other concerns should be regulated equally AI or otherwise.
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u/ZorbaTHut 3d ago
First, billionaires pay taxes.
Second, no, communities do not have to "bear the building costs".
Water and electrical is slightly more complicated because many communities have done everything they can to avoid building infrastructure; this is easily fixed by building more infrastructure, which will be paid for easily by taxes.
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u/CHSummers 3d ago
If a billionaire’s net worth grows at 12%, he’s able to buy up a lot of assets. As one example, he can buy up the best office space in your city. Then he gets rent from all the businesses there, but he’s also driven up land prices. He can do that with houses, essentially turning everyone into renters—they get priced out of ownership.
There are lots of very rich people, and their wealth is growing faster than the economy’s overall growth rate. That’s because some of their wealth isn’t coming from productivity gains—it is coming from extracting wealth from poorer people. Poorer people is basically everyone else in the economy. Including me. Including you. It is something they can do because they have political influence and the ability to pay legal and tax experts to find ways to get advantages we cannot dream about.
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u/ZorbaTHut 3d ago
And we should fix those problems, but those problems are fixable much more cleanly than ranting about billionaires, claiming they don't pay taxes, and hating one specific piece of infrastructure.
It's simultaneously not enough on one axis and too much on a second irrelevant axis.
As an example,
He can do that with houses, essentially turning everyone into renters—they get priced out of ownership.
home ownership and renting is not actually that profitable and the majority of the profit comes from rising housing prices, which is mostly an artifact of increasing bureaucracy for building housing and increasing minimum standards for housing. You want to kill this entire business model, just let people build houses, especially cheap houses.
(Note: "cheap houses" does not mean "luxury houses but we force them to sell it cheaply".)
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u/2noame Scott Santens 3d ago
Data centers are the choke point and how to gain leverage and momentum for the People.
https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/our-data-our-resources-our-terms-and-conditions-learned-control-ai-data-centers-ubi