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.
Is there actually any evidence we're short on inference compute, let alone by a factor of 2.5? To me it always seemed the data centers were about accommodating some extreme predictions on future demand, scaling up training and trying to outdo one another in capturing the limited hardware.
Most people seem to be fudging around with reasoning levels to get through the day and that's pretty telling.
You’re not seeing this? I just had a 20 minute conversation with an engineer about how he’s managing his Codex resets and optimizing his workflow to work around the ways Claude limits his work. It’s extremely stringent rate limiting and you have to pay a lot more for priority pro plans.
Like yes it could be worse, they could just limit customers but that’s exactly what I’m hoping to avoid.
Using taxpayer money and kickbacks to ram through data center construction is bad, but it's not even top ten on the list of crimes the executive branch committed in the last two years.