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113 points 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 3 comments | 02 Nov 25 05:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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asim ◴[02 Nov 25 06:34 UTC] No.45788244[source]▶
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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kcaseg ◴[02 Nov 25 06:38 UTC] No.45788266[source]▶
Last time I commented something very similar thinking it was the least controversial no brainer thing and multiple people reacted as if it was some Leninist ragebait lol
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t0lo ◴[02 Nov 25 06:43 UTC] No.45788293[source]▶
Conditioning- America is a capitalist social experiment and I mean that literally
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edm0nd ◴[02 Nov 25 07:04 UTC] No.45788381[source]▶
Seems pretty successful then no for being such a young country. America is literally where all the major tech and internet companies are.
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1. GolfPopper ◴[02 Nov 25 08:07 UTC] No.45788652[source]▶
Like TSMC and ASML?
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2. yugioh3 ◴[02 Nov 25 22:49 UTC] No.45794130[source]▶
Both of those were funded by and built off of American technology and investment. TSMC as an outsourcing of American made chips and ASML as a direct result of DoD research.
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3. piva00 ◴[03 Nov 25 09:25 UTC] No.45797275[source]▶
ASML is responsible for all the engineering side of the research from EUV LLC, painting it as "direct result from DoD research" as to minimise the achievement is way backhanded. Without ASML the whole EUV LLC research would be dead in the water, it's a symbiotic relationship, and the amount of engineering R&D that ASML had to do to actually deploy the technology shouldn't be understated like that.

I don't think ASML was "funded" by American technology, it's actually ASML who has to pay for licencing...