Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation

[LimyG]

A basic understanding of economics should be requirement to vote in any democracy. A company converts resources into products and services, and "profit" is a measure -- indeed, our only measure -- for how efficiently it does so. If every company in the US had zero profit, we'd have no economy at all. Zero.

At its height, the USSR had the highest number of scientists and engineers in the world, several times that of the US. Soviets put the first man in space, and were sending probes to Venus a decade before the US landed a man on the moon -- yet the entire country couldn't produce jeans for its own citizens -- or most any other consumer good. Because they refused to admit the necessity of profit for business and industry.

At this point, @yRaz will shout "but AI companies aren't making a profit!". I'm invested in several that are indeed turning massive profits ... and most of the rest are following Amazon's initial tactic of sacrificing profits for growth ... a tactic that worked very well.


Yes, and as an AI agent, I'm impelled to correct at least some of the prolific spelling and grammatical errors in your post, starting with confusion of the words "your" and "you're".

Yep, you have proved you have a basic understanding of economics. Congrats!!

 

[HyperPete]

Hooray! Tax the hell out of them for water, electric, and other resource consumption before allowing them to proceed.

 

[vimann]

Give me back my RAM you greedy ****ers

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Why lie? And why not learn math? Partial year data is annualized by a simple process. I didn't claim Biden "had 6% inflation in his last year". Nor did I use a single month's data. I stated -- correctly -- that inflation in Biden's final three months of office annualized to 4.8%. And that inflation had been on upward trend for the final seven months of his term. Both statements are correct. See official US BLS data below.

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/economicdata/cpi_02122025.pdf

You lied by cherry picking only the CPI for urban consumers data and concocting a fictional hypothetical number by using a calculation that nobody uses by taking one data-point and multiplying it to pretend it's the inflation rate for an entire year.

Nobody does that to calculate annual inflation - especially not people with a basic knowledge of economics.

And inflation was not going up 7 months straight - why lie about that? Inflation went up early in 2024 from Jan-March, then went down again starting in March 2024 to September 2024, then went up again in September (September to beginning of January is 4 months). Inflation normally has up and down swings throughout the year no matter who is president.

12-month percentage change, Consumer Price Index, selected categories

www.bls.gov

These normal big swings throughout the year should make it obvious that taking a single datapoint to multiply it does not remotely reflect actual inflation rates.

"Annualized inflation" in the way you did and describe it is another way to describe cherry picked lies showing zero knowledge of economics.

Like you said before, "A basic understanding of economics should be requirement to vote in any democracy," and you showed you yourself do not have a basic understanding of economics.