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This is an insane amount of cash to throw at any problem. They could have Apple rockets mining asteroids with $500,000,000,000. There is no way all this cash goes into AI. What will actually happen is they will take 1/10th this cash to an over-valued startup and acquire them.



Apple is just giving a PR win to the administration like they did last time their preferred party was in power.


Between land, hardware, having to build multiple power plants, the labor costs involved in all of this, and setting money aside to run all of those for however long, then yeah I can see where it gets up to that price. 20k engineers is easily 5 billion per year in salaries, probably more.


The maths are not adding up.

Assume the human resources at $100,000 per head, and you get $2B/yr. Four years comes to just $8B for human resources. Assume land costs $10B. Assume construction costs $100B.

100+10+8 is $118B

Where is the money actually going?


Apple is not hiring engineers at 100k total cost per person. It’s like three times that.

Operational costs are going to be staggering. These are data centers that use as much power as entire cities.




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