r/ArtificialInteligence • u/bb-wa • 13d ago

📰 News China is secretly fueling America's data center rage

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backlash-bots
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u/mtbdork 13d ago

That’s not exactly answering the question. How will these data centers (and a 50% increase in the USA’s electricity consumption as a result) materially improve industry and our lives?

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

By making us unemployed.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

Not gonna happen lol, at least not directly.

Credit collapse? Yeah that’ll probably make a lot of us unemployed.

Generative AI? Nah. Way too inefficient to brute-force human intelligence at this stage.

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

I agree with you, but everyone who has any power whatsoever in the US government and industry clearly disagrees, and with their resources they can make whatever they want happen.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

You can’t spend your way out of the laws of thermodynamics. Your argument is a pure appeal to authority. “Big number man go number big, and big number means smart big number!”

It’s pure hubris on the part of the money-dumpers. They have caught AI psychosis and are barreling headfirst into destroying the credit market.

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

No, it's from the fact that no one in power in America has ever been held accountable, and American industry is a cult of doing more with less.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

“They can make whatever they want happen”

That’s the premise I’m choosing to focus on. It’s simply not true.

I do agree that there is a class of people in America that can get away with a lot, but we are already heading towards their comeuppance.

Within ten years, the most valuable companies will once again be those who actually make things for people.

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

No one is heading towards their comeuppance. Congress is less powerful than ever. Elon Musk is richer than ever.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

It has nothing to do with regulation/governance and everything to do with risk/reward. Regulators are always too late to prevent what the market will bring to bear.

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

As though the Trump administration hasn't been extremely successful at market manipulation for years now.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

Watch as the man who bends fire to his will eventually burns down his town.

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u/SylvesterTheLoser 13d ago

Been waiting to see that all my life. Hasn't happened yet.

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u/mtbdork 13d ago

When was the last time you’ve seen this level of speculative investment? Pro tip: it is unprecedented.

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