Implicitly, it's "costing" taxpayer dollars: An alternative might be cheaper.
Re:Ohio One Construction Timeline Update
by light_hue_1 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:58AM
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Obviously it's going to cost more. Just like tarrifs will.
But we can either make things cost a little more or give away massive piles of money while getting maybe nothing in return and have everything cost more anyway.
That plan is a massive government subsidy in exactly the same way. It's just that instead of direct payments, the subsidy is forcing the government to pay more for all its AI chip needs, because it is deliberately limiting the competition. So the US Government pays more for all of its AI chips and training and inference models under your plan than it does at present, and the size of that extra payment? That's your subsidy.
At least we would get US-made chips out of it, though...
it's what our lord and savior jesus christ said to do
I wonder what would happen to the US economy if other countries did similar things.
> $280 billion in taxpayer dollars...
Have those funds all been dispersed?
This is so absurd it's getting to the point where it's laughably evil.
No, the US has far simpler and completely free methods to do this. For example, look at how travel works. You can't use any US federal dollars to fly on non-US airlines unless it's impossible to do so (with some other caveats we won't go into here).
What the US should do is simply declare, no US federal dollar can go to any AI chip that's not produced in the US. No US federal dollar can go into running training or inference for any model that isn't using GPUs produced in the US.
That's it. An instant massive market is created. Without taxpayer dollars. Without subsidies.