Chamath Palihapitiya
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And that's your big partner, Microsoft.
And when you do these build-outs,
The big conversation today is no longer the number of GPUs putting in, it's just power.
Power is the constraint today, yeah?
And time to compute means tradespeople coming to West Texas
living in a trailer that you set up to then break ground on a data center, build foundations, build water cooling systems like this is hard manual labor going on.
And you get to spend time there.
What's it like when you set up a town or you bring 1,000 people or 2,000 people to what's a pretty much remote small town?
I'm assuming that when you bring 1,000, there might only be 500 living there right now.
So what are those towns like?
It sounds to me like something out of the gold mining era when people first went and were prospectors.
That's very thoughtful.
Yeah.
And these folks are coming, say an electrician or a construction worker.
They're coming having built houses or, you know, maybe building corporate offices.
And now they come for a tour of duty here and the salaries go up massively.
But they got to leave their family for a three month tour or something.
Has that workforce now been completely depleted and we need to train another generation, a younger generation to be generation two belt and really embrace the trades?
And you go to a trade school, you go to a college, people are getting degrees in philosophy and English literature.
They're going 50K a year in debt, 200K a year in debt.