Hacker News Reader

"totalitarian" for a democratically elected representative government to ban something? How? If other counties or states want them fine, godspeed, take them. We'll be just fine without them.

- Lifetime resident of what might as well be called AWS us-east-1, Virginia now.

View on HN

The regional AI policies can be fully democratic, but banning AI data center construction globally would require coordination that only a totalitarian undemocratic one world government could achieve.

Many economically stagnant areas actually see it as an incredible economic opportunity when Americans want to destroy their lead in AI, because they can capture business investment that would be reliably American.

Crushing AI would require crushing these countries, many of which are already hostile to American foreign policy.

Where did anyone say a global ban or even national? I personally do not see it as "an incredible economic opportunity," I see it as a massive gamble that won't bear fruit, but that's beside the point. If localities want to bet on them fine, they can have them like I originally said.

> "totalitarian" for a democratically elected representative government to ban something?

Steven Miller has figured it out

Reply on news.ycombinator.com