Nobody is promoting imperialism here. It’s possible to analyze what you see critically. Try actually engaging with what’s being said in the video instead of making personal attacks. What the video says is that the whole US strategy is fundamentally unsound and reeks of desperation. They think they can play 4D chess by letting Nvidia sell weaker chips to China, hoping it will make Chinese companies addicted to their tech. They completely ignore the will and the capability of China to achieve self-sufficiency.
The plan is already backfiring. Every time they try to block a chip, it just accelerates domestic chip production in China. Huawei and other Chinese companies are making huge strides, and with the government pumping billions into the sector and mandating the use of domestic chips, American attempt to create dependency is failing. Their own experts are admitting that Chinese chips are going from unusable to workable, and once that threshold is crossed, their market in China is finished.
The biggest flaw is their own greed. Trump caved and reversed the ban because Nvidia wanted profits and the US treasury wanted a cut of the sales. So much for their national security concerns. They’re literally funding their own competitor by selling us the tools China needs to stay in the race while their own industry catches up. They’re giving China a bridge to a future without them, and they’re too short-sighted to see it. Now they’re even talking about letting the superior Blackwell chips be sold, which would be a catastrophic miscalculation for them. Their strategy for containment is only ensuring that China overtakes them faster.
Meanwhile, the US has no choice but to stay in the AI race from a strategic standpoint. The potential payoff is too significant to ignore. If this technology delivers, even partially, the nation that masters its application in areas like logistics and automation will command a massive, lasting economic advantage. China’s push into AI alone forces the US to follow.
The central problem is that staying in the race is inherently self-destructive for the US. The US power grid is already strained, with reserve margins at just 15%. The AI industry’s massive, growing energy demand will necessarily diminish emergency buffer, threatening grid stability and making widespread blackouts a real possibility.
Furthermore, you cannot quickly build new power generation. The process takes years and has become prohibitively expensive in part due to the trade war with China. This collision of soaring demand and constrained supply will send electricity prices parabolic for everyone.
There’s a good chance that the AI race will cripple the broader economy in America. Traditionally, the US has relied on cheap energy to sustain its manufacturing base. Now, it risks adopting Europe’s model, where prohibitively high energy costs make running a factory unprofitable. The US is essentially being forced to sacrifice its physical industrial base to power the AI bubble, all because the strategic cost of losing the race is unthinkable.
On the other hand, energy prices in China are already far lower than in the US, and they’re only dropping due to massive and accelerating deployment of renewables. China is in a far better position to build things like data centres needed for AI than the US is. Hence, it’s actually advantageous for China to drag the US into a sort of an arms race where the US has a significant disadvantage. Americans dumping 500 billion into AI infrastructure is an illustration of Chinese strategy working.
This guy?
Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US
TBH this sinophobic bullshit should be removed. Imagine being so brainwashed by “AI” grifters that you promote imperialism on an ML instance.
Nobody is promoting imperialism here. It’s possible to analyze what you see critically. Try actually engaging with what’s being said in the video instead of making personal attacks. What the video says is that the whole US strategy is fundamentally unsound and reeks of desperation. They think they can play 4D chess by letting Nvidia sell weaker chips to China, hoping it will make Chinese companies addicted to their tech. They completely ignore the will and the capability of China to achieve self-sufficiency.
The plan is already backfiring. Every time they try to block a chip, it just accelerates domestic chip production in China. Huawei and other Chinese companies are making huge strides, and with the government pumping billions into the sector and mandating the use of domestic chips, American attempt to create dependency is failing. Their own experts are admitting that Chinese chips are going from unusable to workable, and once that threshold is crossed, their market in China is finished.
The biggest flaw is their own greed. Trump caved and reversed the ban because Nvidia wanted profits and the US treasury wanted a cut of the sales. So much for their national security concerns. They’re literally funding their own competitor by selling us the tools China needs to stay in the race while their own industry catches up. They’re giving China a bridge to a future without them, and they’re too short-sighted to see it. Now they’re even talking about letting the superior Blackwell chips be sold, which would be a catastrophic miscalculation for them. Their strategy for containment is only ensuring that China overtakes them faster.
Meanwhile, the US has no choice but to stay in the AI race from a strategic standpoint. The potential payoff is too significant to ignore. If this technology delivers, even partially, the nation that masters its application in areas like logistics and automation will command a massive, lasting economic advantage. China’s push into AI alone forces the US to follow.
The central problem is that staying in the race is inherently self-destructive for the US. The US power grid is already strained, with reserve margins at just 15%. The AI industry’s massive, growing energy demand will necessarily diminish emergency buffer, threatening grid stability and making widespread blackouts a real possibility.
Furthermore, you cannot quickly build new power generation. The process takes years and has become prohibitively expensive in part due to the trade war with China. This collision of soaring demand and constrained supply will send electricity prices parabolic for everyone.
There’s a good chance that the AI race will cripple the broader economy in America. Traditionally, the US has relied on cheap energy to sustain its manufacturing base. Now, it risks adopting Europe’s model, where prohibitively high energy costs make running a factory unprofitable. The US is essentially being forced to sacrifice its physical industrial base to power the AI bubble, all because the strategic cost of losing the race is unthinkable.
On the other hand, energy prices in China are already far lower than in the US, and they’re only dropping due to massive and accelerating deployment of renewables. China is in a far better position to build things like data centres needed for AI than the US is. Hence, it’s actually advantageous for China to drag the US into a sort of an arms race where the US has a significant disadvantage. Americans dumping 500 billion into AI infrastructure is an illustration of Chinese strategy working.