@troberts A little factoid I came across recently to put the amount of money being spent in perspective...

The current USA datacenter Capex is running at about 1.8 Apollo Programs per year. That's the entire 11 or so year run of the Apollo program, inflation adjusted, twice over, being spent annually, and increasing.

To date AI datacenter rollout is currently the second most expensive works program ever in the USA (I think that it was the railway network the beats it), but it's spent that in a few years instead of decade and multi-decade scales like the other big programs.

Which kind of proves that there is enough money for us to have nice things, and a nice world, if the money is directed appropriately.,