I like how the Olympic committee has tried to take into account that the buildout of facilities every 4 years follows a similar boom/bust cycle, and they're at least trying to think about how we can satisfy both short-term and long-term goals at the same time.

For instance, a stadium where 30% of the seats are built to last, and the remaining 70% are bolted on, meant to be taken back off and recycled after the closing ceremonies.

I don't know how you build a mask factory so you can use it for something else. I do know of textile factories that have pivoted temporarily. Can you build up a short-lived production line for an integrated circuit and then tear it down but leave all of the infrastructure in place to pivot to something else? What I hear out of Intel is that setting up such a fab is a long and expensive process.

What I also hear is a lot of people challenging Intel's wisdom. So now I don't know what to think.