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I feel like the debate Sriram describes often overrates how readily compute would 'leak' to other countries if the U.S. backlash against datacenters continued. There are (almost) no safe international candidates with lots of capacity and better political conditions; especially given the less-than-stellar reputation of the U.S. and its tech firms in many of these countries. With the gulf becoming less and less attractive, it's really hard to get something big built anywhere else. That means…
talking to a few ai safety / alignment organizations and find broadly they are not sure what to make of the data center protests - also it’s not something that has shown up in any timelines or predictions. I see a split between A) “we probably need data centers in US than in China” B) “less data centers is a proxy for a slow down in capabilities and that could be a good thing “
