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Haha love to see it. These people acted like kings yesterday and now coming to the table. Never accept a first offer folks! Keep it coming

So well said. Absolutely shameful how the media smeared this man, and so glad America has this class of representative heading to DC.

Yup. And Commercial Crew under Obama. And Dragon being selected to return Starliner astronauts was also under Biden (and kravenly lied about by Musk) They’ll be treated normally but there will be scrutiny which is 100% warranted and solely Musks choice he made.

Hate to be this guy but I am nuanced overall on data centers / AI. In general I think AI is a useful and transformative technology. And data centers are things that should and have existed. HOWEVER. What people are reacting to is a plethora of real negatives and contradictions. In a country where we can barely build housing and other vital things people have wanted, all of a sudden we can plop down hyperscale industrial infrastructure seemingly anywhere overnight? Ok. And a lot of them aren’t neutral in their surroundings. Many pollute heavily, are super loud, jack up local power and water prices + supply concerns. Some have started mitigating some of these, but they did happen and continue to. And what do they get back? Well there’s good construction jobs temporarily and then that’s about it. They don’t long term employee many people, and the wealth goes out of town. And what’s it all for? Well answers are all over the place, but 2 front running answers are to take your job, and potentially kill you and everyone. I’m not saying that, that’s what the top AI companies say. As that to general AI fatigue for normal people the technology has largely been implemented annoyingly and terribly and rammed down are throats. And the top real day to day use case people experience are slop, data infringement, and illegal surveillance. So it’s not hysteria to say, hold up, let’s maybe pause this, or build it elsewhere, or put some conditions / assurances Basically this industry WAAAAAY overstepping and bulldozing. And yeah, that has negatively polarized the vast majority of people. To the point that nationwide, Republicans have actually ran more anti-data center than democrats. That’s how bad it polled, and now we see how bad it performed. It’s not just a case of everyone’s dumb and hysteria. There are real concerns and whatever good name AI could’ve had had been really drug through the mud. The fix is relatively simple for most of it. Community dividends, net zero energy or put power back into grid, overhaul local internet, sooner past the fence line, net zero water. And then industry wide regulation in regard to data, safety, and surveillance concerns.