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My AI broadly agrees with Arvind's AI: state-level data center bans have very little impact overall on AI progress. If your concern is AI de…
My AI broadly agrees with Arvind's AI: state-level data center bans have very little impact overall on AI progress. If your concern is AI development, concentration of power, future use, or anything e
My AI broadly agrees with Arvind's AI: state-level data center bans have very little impact overall on AI progress. If your concern is AI development, concentration of power, future use, or anything else other than "is a datacenter near me," this is not a substitute for policy. What impact do data center bans or moratoria have on AI progress? Let's do some napkin math. A number such as "1 GW of capacity blocked" can be unintuitive. But we can take advantage of the fact that the efficiency of AI inference at a given capability level has been consistently…
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Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-08-24