The fact that every company feels the need to do this shit simping for Trump just so that they can try not to get put on the chopping block is a shame on this country.
Suddenly the pictures look like in the 1990s again. This is the company that radicalized software engineers and open source projects throughout the Biden administration and cheered on any woke cancellation.
And if Harris is elected in 2028, they'll flip again. I've never seen such blatant cowardice and treachery.
They have been advertising this initiative with various physical signage in Washington DC for the last several months. Very squarely targeted at lawmakers and the current administration.
I don't think this has much or anything to do with Trump. Data center industry is beset from the left by those ignorant of thermodynamics and angry that they studied English. More articles are published every week about how much energy or water the data center industry consumes than have ever been written about any industry in the history of written commentary, even when the other industries are hundreds or thousands of times more energy intensive. So the data center industry is out here trying to defend itself even though it is the only industry that builds its own renewable power plants, the only industry that is thoroughly transparent about its energy and water consumption, and an extreme outlier in terms of value gained for little impact.
Dont' be evil. → Do the right thing. → Investing in America. → Asking America for Investment. → Asking NVidia for Investment. → Begging NVidia for Chips. → Getting in the government free chip line with everyone else. → Selling retro Google logo t-shirts on ebay. → The Museum of AI discovery with the original Attention is All You Need hardcopy on display under a cheap glass case.
Oh, I know this! Coming from a third world country, this kind of communication from major companies looks familiar. It happens because uncertainty about rule of law, so the company needs to show public alliegeance to the ruler to obtain protection (and favors eventually). We call this boot licking.
The rule of law is when governments follow actual law not random whims of some stupid idiot.
Google can't kill me, governments can kill me. There's no company who can directly kill me unless, again, they get aid from some government. Governments are the most powerful and dangerous gangs in the world.
This initiative is meaningless if it doesn’t create jobs in the range where most employees are being shed in this new economy. It doesn’t mean that everyone needs to work for Google, just that FAANG companies need to invest in all sorts of places, for whatever suits their interests. Maybe this also means more incubators, or non-profit research programs to bolster foundational research.
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I thought that Google was doing more than ~30B in data centers, and some of the write ups talk about over the next 2 years.
I don't understand the objective if it isn't comprehensive.
And if Harris is elected in 2028, they'll flip again. I've never seen such blatant cowardice and treachery.
We've spent far too long where things were the other way around, with the wrong side giving the orders.
I mean, that sure sounds like what we have now, but it hasn't exactly proven itself to be a great thing for society.
Oh you sweet summer child
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