AI needs more compute rails: why blocking data centers in poor regions backfires
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-09-26
The author draws a Gilded Age analogy: model builders are like engine makers while data center builders lay the rails, arguing that refusing data centers in high-poverty regions is self-defeating. AI may create new problems requiring redistribution, but it can also solve stale problems between humanity and the wild universe, since we don't get more or smarter humans. Quotes the striking progress in Memphis.
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