Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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them sound as friendly as possible.
But yeah, I mean, with Colossus, XAI never really took off.
People were not, in fact, using Grok as much as Elon thought they were going to be using it.
And in that case, he was able to get a really good deal selling the compute capacity to Anthropic, which was growing like crazy and had not built enough data centers on their side.
But you could totally imagine a world, as you say, where, in fact...
You know, XAI decides we are going to focus on space.
We don't care about AI anymore.
Maybe there's not an Anthropic to pick up the bill because Anthropic has maybe built enough of their own compute capacity.
There is an open question about what happens in that world.
This, I think, was one of my big motivating questions going into this trip is, is it, quote unquote, normal NIMBYism?
Is it about AI?
Is it about something else?
And so I spent time both looking at polls and trying to talk to people about, would you be excited if this was a chip factory?
which would use a lot more water and pollute a lot more, would you be excited if it was a solar farm?
Also, maybe acquiring agricultural land and turning it into industrial use, would you be excited if it was a million other things?
And I talked to Nick Bagley, who you've had on your show, about is this just proceduralism?
And we talked about the solar farms example, where solar farms –
The opposition used very similar tactics to the data center opposition.
They were organizing in Facebook groups.
They were packing town halls.
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