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Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by ojr on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:27PM (#46130305)
As long as the dollar remains the reserve currency of the world and US retains its hegemony, a lot of the finances will work itself out, the only threat to the US empire crumbling is by losing a major war or extreme civil unrest and that threat is astronomically low. The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire, I don't think people realize the scale or control.
Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by rootnod3 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:30PM (#46130324)
Famous last words of empires. I doubt that if current situations continue that the US will in any sense be still thought of as the reserve currency.
Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by 7222aafdcf68cfe on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:26AM (#46130871)
Gradually, then suddenly. Best not to underestimate the extent to which the USA has lost trust in the rest of the world, and how actively people and organisations are working to derisk by disengaging. Of course that will neither be easy nor particularly fast, but I'm not certain it can be stopped at this point.
Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by LunaSea on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:20AM (#46131626)
You should look at the depreciation of the value of the dollar this year.
Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by randomNumber7 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:26AM (#46131695)
Pride comes before a fall.
Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:15AM (#46132691)
> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire

This would be trivially true even if the US was currently in its death throes (which there is plenty of evidence that the US-as-empire might be, even if the US-as-polity is not), as the Roman Empire fell quite a while ago.

Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by zahlman on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:44AM (#46133858)
I'm pretty sure

> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire [was]

was the intended reading.

Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by ojr on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:20PM (#46235894)
being pedantic doesn’t change the fact of what I said. If I said Obama is a better a leader than Julius Caesar, would you reply well actually, Julius Caesar is dead.