Garry Tan Blames NIMBYs For Seattle Data Center Ban Threatening Tech Economy

Veto supply through process, socialize the costs, then act shocked when prices climb and jobs leave.

The fix is the same too: reform the review process, build the housing, build the grid and datacenters.

If we do the fix, we'll have prosperity. If we do what the NIMBYs want we just get cost disease and more market failure.

@garrytan It’s democratic slopulism

@toly @garrytan all it takes is a soylana manlet to remind them

@garrytan All housing NIMBYs are probably datacenter NIMBYs.

I don't think all datacenter NIMBYs are housing NIMBYs. Probably a very small slice.

@garrytan They'll just raise taxes on everyone else. Taxpayer money is free and infinite.

@garrytan Rent control people are NIMBYs.

@garrytan We call this the sheep cohort

@garrytan Tax these predators out of existence

@garrytan it honestly feels like they just want everything to stay broken.

@garrytan Just like how I can’t read for shit so I hired an attorney who reads to me while I nap in my car

@garrytan There is a certain subset of America that just earnestly wants to live in a previous technological era that they feel is simpler. The Amish aren't NIMBYs. What many would call a "community-oriented organic farm" is just pre-WWII subsistence farming.

https://rocketforge.substack.com/p/imagining-a-slower-more-hands-on

@garrytan everyone wants the magic of the cloud until they realize it lives in a warehouse. you can't prompt your way out of a physical supply shortage

@garrytan NIMBYs subsidize demand (tax breaks) and block supply (zoning). They're just hedge funds with lawns

@garrytan The way this is going is people can strike favorable terms with the private data centers now or have one forced on them by the government. It’s coming, just like the railroad tracks and power stations.

@toly @garrytan Whats ur opinion on latest news about biolabs across the world. Elon said wow , what do u say?

@toly @garrytan Yo bro

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@garrytan Peter Thiel says college creates a “thinking bubble” and limits independent thinking. Is formal education a barrier to entrepreneurship? Many people point to the success of the Thiel Fellowship. What path should a high school student who wants to become an entrepreneur choose?

@toly @garrytan Who would you say is worse for the economy NEETs or NIMBYs @toly ?

@garrytan the overlap between dont build in my backyard and why is everything so expensive is actually wild

@garrytan i've seen several videos of data centers built in neighborhoods and the noise level is totally unacceptable. it's why they're getting sued after being built.