[HN Gopher] Investing in America 2025
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Investing in America 2025
Author : gmays
Score : 30 points
Date : 2025-10-07 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rco8786 wrote:
| PR to appease the administration I guess
| SeanAnderson wrote:
| Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Virginia and an article referencing
| Sundar at the White House.
|
| Seems pretty clear to me :)
|
| EDIT: to be clear, I think investing in struggling,
| predominately red states is totally fine and good. I'm more
| taking issue with the way this information is presented. The
| red/blue text gradient, the "investing in America" focus, etc.
| It feels specifically crafted to appeal to a certain mindset.
| Contrast this with, say, the roll-out of Google Fiber in
| Kansas, etc. where the focus was on technology not patriotism.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| No investments in California? What are we, dog-meat?
| dgfitz wrote:
| What, the 4th biggest economy in the world needs an
| investment? Aren't they supposed to be the investors?
| bix6 wrote:
| What, the biggest economy in the world (US) needs an
| investment?
| dgfitz wrote:
| Sure doesn't.
| anon291 wrote:
| 'This is totally normal'
| CompoundEyes wrote:
| Bonus: The locals pay higher utility bills thanks to the
| "investment".
| Jcampuzano2 wrote:
| The fact that every company feels the need to do this shit
| simping for Trump just so that they can try not to get put on the
| chopping block is a shame on this country.
| marcinzm wrote:
| You mean like every company implementing DEI for the last
| administration? I don't like Trump but this is how both sides
| have been playing politics. I suspect I'll get downvoted and
| flagged for this which I think will prove my point.
| bix6 wrote:
| Maybe some companies implemented DEI because civil rights
| matter to people? And those that care have kept it.
|
| Trump just cut a bunch of money to blue state projects. Did
| the last admin do that to the red states? 60% of Biden's
| infrastructure bill went to red states.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| It's just that we _still_ have DEI. The uplifted group is
| just much smaller - billionaire friends of Trump.
| slg wrote:
| It is so bizarre the way some people act like all DEI
| policies were introduced between January 2021-January 2025. I
| can understand being against the policies, but people are
| just straight lying about how, why, and when those policies
| came to be.
| bix6 wrote:
| HUNDREDS OF JOBS!!!
|
| Finally, unemployment is OVER!
|
| https://www.arkansasedc.com/news-events/newsroom/detail/2025...
| HardCodedBias wrote:
| I'm sure that there were individual press releases that outlined
| each of these investments but it is nice to have them all in one
| place.
|
| I thought that Google was doing more than ~30B in data centers,
| and some of the write ups talk about over the next 2 years.
|
| I don't understand the objective if it isn't comprehensive.
| bgwalter wrote:
| Suddenly the pictures look like in the 1990s again. This is the
| company that radicalized software engineers and open source
| projects throughout the Biden administration and cheered on any
| woke cancellation.
|
| And if Harris is elected in 2028, they'll flip again. I've never
| seen such blatant cowardice and treachery.
| Centigonal wrote:
| They have been advertising this initiative with various physical
| signage in Washington DC for the last several months. Very
| squarely targeted at lawmakers and the current administration.
| Arubis wrote:
| What's the point of having fuck-you money if you don't ever tell
| anyone "fuck you"?
|
| And if not these fascist wannabes, then who?
|
| I get the business case of appeasing the folks in power. But this
| is embarrassing--precisely the folks that have enough power and
| influence to resist Balkanizing our economy and society are
| bending the knee, and they don't have to.
| deadbabe wrote:
| One of the first things you realize when you attain fuck you
| money is... there's always a bigger _fuck you_.
|
| You're a billionaire? Nice, you depend on a stable government
| that enforces laws and protects you from violence for that to
| mean anything.
| jeffbee wrote:
| I don't think this has much or anything to do with Trump. Data
| center industry is beset _from the left_ by those ignorant of
| thermodynamics and angry that they studied English. More articles
| are published every week about how much energy or water the data
| center industry consumes than have ever been written about any
| industry in the history of written commentary, even when the
| other industries are hundreds or thousands of times more energy
| intensive. So the industry is out here trying to defend itself
| even though it is the only industry that builds its own renewable
| power plants, the only industry that is thoroughly transparent
| about its energy and water consumption, and a extreme outlier in
| terms of value gained for little impact.
| mmaunder wrote:
| Dont' be evil. - Do the right thing. - Investing in America. -
| Asking America for Investment. - Asking NVidia for Investment. -
| Begging NVidia for Chips. - Getting in the government free chip
| line with everyone else. - Selling retro Google logo t-shirts on
| ebay. - The Museum of AI discovery with the original Attention is
| All You Need hardcopy on display under a cheap glass case.
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