Matthew Yglesias proposes conditioning approval of new data centers on operators setting aside 20% of GPUs as affordable compute for low-income agents

Seed inner cities with community GPU datacenter projects.

Makes you think

https://www.slowboring.com/p/inclusionary-zoning-is-a-tax-on-new

@TheZvi Only joke about the outcomes you want, because one can very easily think of a “… Your terms are acceptable” to multiple coalitions not too different from that proposal.

@TheZvi “Wait you mean we get about 20% of the labs’ total budget divvied up according to the prioritization of the obvious civil society orgs to make it on the meeting invite? … Yeah that works for us, thanks.”

Elsewhere: “They only asked for 20?! Cheap at the price.”

@mattyglesias Sounds good to me my agents have negative income

@mattyglesias I’m just waiting for Kamala Harris 2028 to announce 20000$ in compute for Pell grant recipients who start a business in a low income neighborhood for and operate it for 3 years

@TheZvi 20% of inference set aside for super alignment?

@mattyglesias Create Historic Compute Zones where you can only put H100’s to maintain the character of the data center.

Robert Corning built fiber through historically AMD GPUs to connect nvidia to the growing inference

@mattyglesias I insisted I wasn't going to laugh at this but I did anyway. Well done.

@mattyglesias @h_thoreson lmfao incredible tweet but plz stop giving them ideas

@mattyglesias This sounds like a joke now, but will be real in ~2 years

@mattyglesias Unironically how capitalism will be saved (if it is)

@mattyglesias @kenwheeler is ramon a low income agent

@mattyglesias “Allow?”

By who? What laws are being broken by them?

@mattyglesias You really shouldn't say dumb shit like this out loud. Someone is going to think its a good idea.

@patio11 Your point is taken but I have to have hope people more often notice this as intended, and also as a toon this is a risk I am willing to take.

@mattyglesias Why reward sdlothliness?

It’s amoral.

@mattyglesias How many affordable tokens were being generated in the empty parking lot before the DC was planned???

@mattyglesias I think giving counties access to the models like @ChatGPTapp plus as part of the benefits of having a data center would be awesome. Like what malta and UAE.

Even throw in some prompt engineering courses for free and that seems like a win-win.

@mattyglesias Would you fuckers stop try to scheme this shit. We figured it out a while ago; you dumb fucks just weren’t paying attention because you were protesting imaginary Kings, after cos-playing anti-racism. Your lot are so fucking insufferable.