Tucker Carlson

That would be aircraft and anything that goes into space to defend us.

And it was entertainment.

It was a movie business, movies and television, famously out of Hollywood.

Now, two out of three are, if not totally dead, certainly on their way to being totally dead.

Agriculture, we hope, will always be there, but it's not a big money proposition, even in a good year.

So what sustains the state of California?

What allows the generous welfare promises that its politicians have made to its people to continue?

How can the state of California continue paying full health and medical, maybe even dental, for illegal aliens without a big source of tax revenue?

And of course, the answer, in their minds, is AI.

So they're betting everything on AI.

The problem is once a politician bets everything on any industry, he has every incentive to, well, have unrealistic expectations for what that industry is going to do.

Of course, not so different from rolling the dice.

But they're also very likely to suspend the normal protections that keep the rest of us from being hurt by that industry.

Because it's too important to get into the details of what this might look like 10 or 15 years from now.

So what's happening in California is really happening nationally.

It's happening in every state and it's happening in Washington.

We are betting everything on AI.

And you know that because by far the most ambitious investments into the United States, not simply by American companies and investors, but by states, by the federal government and by foreign investors, putting foreign direct investment into the United States is in artificial intelligence.

And all of this has kind of become visible.

It's been going on for a while, but it's become very visible to the public in the outcry over a proposed data center in Utah, in a fairly sparsely populated, pretty remote county in Utah, most of which is sparsely populated, in which will be built the, well, what's being billed as the largest data center in the world.