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Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. The move, he claims, will clear the way for a ballroom for holding large events that are typically held in tents on the South Lawn. A debate immediately arose online over whether or not the next Democratic president should tear down the ballroom or keep it, albeit with the necessary extensive renovations to remove all the tackiness Trump brings to any project.
Two months later, it increasingly seems that such discussion was a wasted effort, as the chance this ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing. Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent, but that’s not what he did. Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling. Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone, but it’s quickly becoming clear it will be nearly impossible for the famed real estate tycoon to pull it off.
The whole thing is a too-perfect symbol of Trump’s second administration: They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
That’s because he isn’t building a ballroom.
AKA “A place to hide after suspending midterms after society revolts when SCOTUS modifies the 14th amendment this summer”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-873a45bc58de9e92773f554bf5bba9a0
The 14th amendment being nullified by SCOTUS won’t provoke much more than some peaceful protests that, at least around here, get minimized by the media. People like my neighbor, a Mexican-American (who fought in Iraq), will be using their dual citizenship to leave, but that’s about it.
There’s even less chance that even a Trumpenbunker will be done by then.
LOL.
If you wanted a secret underground-anything why would you put it under the freakin whitehouse?
… and of all things a data centre, which would work the same if it were under sydney harbour, or you know… not underground at all, or well… just any of hundreds of existing data centres.
Exactly, why the hell would they put it underneath the whitehouse itself? There’s already a bunch of existing underground infrastructure there that they would need to work around and all to put their super secret datacenter under the single most likely to be bombed building if the country were ever attacked. Even if they wanted a new datacenter it would make way more sense to build it offsite and just tunnel a few deep redundant data lines to the whitehouse.
As far as the whole secure underground datacenter thing, we already have them. Nobody I know has ever been inside it but Google runs a secure underground datacenter somewhat near where I live. It’s basically a bunker full of servers burried deep into bedrock exactly like that “article” talks about. Most people don’t even know it’s there. I only know it exists because I know one of the guys that worked on some of the specialized HVAC equipment for it. Of course thats the only one I personally know about but I highly doubt it’s the only one in the country.
The article does give a reason, it says it’s to allow “executive oversight.” As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.
That’s super thin. Plenty of things have executive oversight and are not physically under the white house.
That’s opposite of the logic suggested. The logic is that anything at the pres. place must be theirs. “Is there anything at / under the white house that is -not- under executive oversight?” is the relevant question.
I dont really follow.
I mean i bet Trump loves that Saudi plane, but that’s not at the white house?
There’s much better places to keep important things.
This reads as way too competent a plan and scheme for Trump’s admin.
I can’t decide which is scarier, that Trump’s admin is so incompetent they can’t build a ballroom, or competent enough to plan and build a project like this while hiding it from the public
Too competent for Trump, absolutely. But there are some pretty scary competent people behind him, whispering in his ear. As the video details, the people he’s hired to work on his “ballroom”, also happen to be some of the world’s leading experts on building super secure, military grade data centers. There’s not a lot of overlap between those things, so it’s hard to imagine that it’s just a random coincidence.
would this even work in dc? the water table is so high, one of the reasons they didn’t build a more extensive bunker complex in the 50s it’s impractical to build anything and then keep it from flooding.
Fascinating read, thanks for that.
Good luck getting hardware in this market
I got two sticks of DDR4 they can buy for $2000. Heck, I’ll even knock it down to $2500.
You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook
Especially if you never intend to pay for it. Trump’s classic playbook is to look at a completed project and say ‘It’s not good enough, I’m not paying for that.’ and then out-lawyering the contractors in endless court cases.
Not sure why she shoehorned crypto in there.
Because data centers also make great crypto mines. And guess who’s currently trying to build their very own crypto empire?
Nah. Crypto mining needs specific asic hardware. AI needs completely different chips.
None of Trumps meme coin grifts require Proof of Work.
ASIC tech is used in both AI and crypto mining. The reason they work well together is because of the power and cooling infrastructure required for both. Most data centers are designed and equipped to handle either / or.
No no. The specific ASIC chips used for bitcoin mining are useless for anything else.
Also Mining rigs use less energy, don’t run hot so require less water than AI GPU servers.
I think you’re missing the point. Data centers can run whatever chips you want. It’s not about the specific chip…it’s about the power and cooling systems needed to run them. You can set up a data center to run anything, in any combination.