If the billionaire class doesn't think they need taxes or a workforce then what does that look like? If the population goes from 8B to like 5K + robots for the drudgery then all the problems go away - no more war, no more climate change, no famine, no large logistics problems.
I continually worry that these people in power see the rest of us as a nuisance to optimize away.
OP said that already when they mentioned Kevin O'Leary.
If no: why do you write them?
Yes, I really think that it will get built, because the people building data centers are throwing money/favors at politicians to get them approved
I really, really doubt this.
Utah greenlights 9GW AI campus using over twice state electricity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932941
Utah data center: Projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs
https://www.boxeldercountyut.gov/647/Stratos-Project-Fact-Sh...
heres a site mapfromthe FAQ:
https://www.boxeldercountyut.gov/644/Stratos-Project-Map
it strikes me that a swath of the salt ridge adjacent to the salt lake bed is desired.
the proximity to current naturalgas distribution infra, suggests a mulligan,made out of natural gas welling.
if there is a large salt dome and gas deposit, theres the revenue and free utilities.
If you have some land, getting approval to build six buildings is often not much more work than getting approval to build one. So why not apply for six even if you only have a tenant for one. If it's the same amount of paperwork and the land is cheap (maybe you can lease the land to the farmer you bought it from).
This doesn't apply in places where land is expensive, of course. Central Amsterdam, downtown Manhattan, etc. In places like that you'd want to use your building permits PDQ.
- Certainly the current population level isn't needed to support the current number of billionaires. Isn't there about 1000 right now? I probably eat more than 2 or 3 of them.
- What happens in 100 years when the billionaires have kids and their kids have kids?
That's a good attitude, if we all set out to eat more than 2 or 3 billionaires they'll be in our stomachs and out of our hair before you know it!