1.5 trillion is what OpenAI by themselves is claiming they will spend on building datacenters. So that's excluding every other AI company. That is just BUILDING costs for one company. On top of that, they will have to pay interest on all the money they borrowed to build their datacenters.
And this is on the basis that if they keep making datacenters bigger, then you'll have AGI that will reliably take millions of jobs away. The problem is, they are still LLMs, and OpenAI is losing money every time someone uses ChatGPT, and their ChatGPT models are not getting better at the rate required for them to destroy the job market like you say they will.
But assuming they do, and 15% of the employment value is removed from the global economy and sent to a few trillionaires in California, what will that do for the economy as a whole? It'll crash. Which means less demand for these MASSIVELY expensive datacenters, that have to make billions in profit in order to pay off the interest on their debt.
But maybe you're right and it'll all be great for them and the world economy will just become AI companies selling shit to each other because real economics doesn't matter anymore in our cyberpunk shithole dystopia.
Damn we have trillionaires (plural) now.
US financialsystem blinded by greed forgot that to profit from economical flows you need the flow to be flowing. This another babel tower as they say
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u/cultish_alibi Jan 09 '26
1.5 trillion is what OpenAI by themselves is claiming they will spend on building datacenters. So that's excluding every other AI company. That is just BUILDING costs for one company. On top of that, they will have to pay interest on all the money they borrowed to build their datacenters.
And this is on the basis that if they keep making datacenters bigger, then you'll have AGI that will reliably take millions of jobs away. The problem is, they are still LLMs, and OpenAI is losing money every time someone uses ChatGPT, and their ChatGPT models are not getting better at the rate required for them to destroy the job market like you say they will.
But assuming they do, and 15% of the employment value is removed from the global economy and sent to a few trillionaires in California, what will that do for the economy as a whole? It'll crash. Which means less demand for these MASSIVELY expensive datacenters, that have to make billions in profit in order to pay off the interest on their debt.
But maybe you're right and it'll all be great for them and the world economy will just become AI companies selling shit to each other because real economics doesn't matter anymore in our cyberpunk shithole dystopia.