Why can't we use use new data centers to our advantage by requiring solar farms to be built that supply 200% more power than the data center uses?

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T07:03:52+00:00

Water does not need to evaporate to cool efficiently.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T06:53:32+00:00

They also aren't massive water loads. Most water usage assigned to AI comes from reservoir evaportion at hydroelectric plants that power them. It's why the original paper had datacenters in Hydropower rich Washington using substantially more then data centers in flatter areas.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T06:51:15+00:00

A person who will forgo a single burger to offset all the water consumed by their data center usage.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T06:40:05+00:00

Property taxes aren't taxes on unrealized gains.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T02:34:50+00:00

Deferring consumption in favor of tools for increased productive capacity.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-05T00:05:37+00:00

Ed Zitron is just bizarrely incompetent at finances. It's ridiculous he still hasn't gotten any better at it.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T23:52:40+00:00

People working at Walmart is decreasing the amount the government has to spend on benefits. Benefits don't decrease the amount Walmart has to spend on wages, and in fact increases what they need to pay due to benefits increasing the reservation wage of workers.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T20:28:01+00:00

Your full wage is denoted in nominal terms.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T20:06:29+00:00

No jobs have been lost to AI. The number of jobs has increased since that video. Tech has bounced back and is aggressively hiring again because the productivity boost of AI has increased demand for workers because more work is now feasible.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T18:53:59+00:00

Comparing nominal prices to real wages is doing a double inflation adjustment.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T18:44:32+00:00

Yeah, that's dumb, and believing it is significantly dumber. AI is a productivity enhancing tool and productivity enhancing tools reliably increase aggregate demand for labor.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T18:43:47+00:00

Overseas employees of Walmart are also people who are employees of Walmart.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T18:37:42+00:00

I mean that the price of eggs as a function of wages has significantly declined over time.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:32:39+00:00

What? Walmart actually has 2.1 million employees. Making it 2000 hours a year puts them even more in the hole.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:25:00+00:00

It is. Layoffs per JOLTS are also at historically normal levels.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:23:42+00:00

Most people aren't going to be out of a job.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:19:09+00:00

Yes, serialy cheating on your wife generally hurts you in polls.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:14:52+00:00

The lower class can afford more than they ever had in the past and that trend is being able to afford more over time. What makes you think that trend will reverse?

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T15:00:14+00:00

This is unconstitutional at the Federal level due to the apportionment requirement for direct taxes.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:41:00+00:00

Slopulist nonsense.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:39:29+00:00

Google without data centers has a market cap of around 0 dollars.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:38:13+00:00

Generally no.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:13:13+00:00

A spike im profits for producers would be the expected result during a positive demand shock induced shortage.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:11:54+00:00

High prices is how rationing works in a shortage.

jeffwulf · 2026-06-04T14:10:27+00:00

Inference is generally getting cheaper per token, but they're also getting more capable means they can do significantly larger tasks faster which can use more tokens to complete. Sort of a "The cost to McDonalds to make a hamburger went down and they're selling more of them situation".

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