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  1. The winner of the AI race will be whoever does the most with less. Anybody caught spending huge on training and/or inference will be stuck holding the bag. Distillation models are going to win.

  2. I’m no fan of data centers either, but the author of this article must have missed the recent NY Times piece about state actors in China, Russia, and North Korea are using fake social media posts to fan anti-data center support.

    So, given that I’m not 100% sure this rabid bi-partisan anti-data center support is as grass-roots as this article states.

  3. I am no fan of data centers, but I would rather tax the centers so that taxes stay low on cars and houses. Isn’t a data center a warehouse with computers, so putting them on industrial zoned land makes complete sense. For the life of me I do not understand that Indianapolis wants to embrace the DSA and its policies…

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