Paul Graham Says US Data Center Ban Shifts AI Progress Abroad
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham addressed proposals to restrict American data centers for AI.
Paul Graham posted that preventing companies from building data centers in America would not slow the overall rate of AI progress. It would only slow progress inside the United States. Matthew Barnett replied that the policy would still slow AI progress modestly, because data centers cost more to build outside the country and therefore would not appear at the same pace elsewhere.
Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.
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5 posts@paulg I think it would slow the rate of progress in AI since building data centers elsewhere is more expensive (otherwise they'd already be built elsewhere). That said I doubt the effect will be very large, e.g., it won't cause compute to grow half as quickly than the…
20 years from now: "fucking capitalists put all the data centers outside of the country to mess with regular americans and make us pay for foreign compute"
Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.
man i bet people love when we outsource industries
Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.
Year 2050 👦: How did we end up losing, gramps? 👴: Some companies would fearmonger about imminent doom in order to achieve regulatory capture, most of these overregulated industries ended up moving offshore to China to maintain their dynamism and rate of progress. Decels…
man i bet people love when we outsource industries https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2090966322444472605
20 years from now: "fucking capitalists put all the data centers outside of the country to mess with regular americans and make us pay for foreign compute"
Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.
