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however, thats true across the entire u.s. market. you're confusing things. it's not at all spectacular that they spent this much ^ on AI. its happening in every business. its actually the mag 7 (the regular biggest u.s. companies- facebook/meta, tesla, apple, google, microsoft, nvidia, amazon) who spent the most on it, (ai stuff), by far. palantir could be considered a close 8th or 9th. anyway, the funny thing about it is, most people in the stock market and in the know are worried that the whole thing, and i mean the whole thing is overspending, and that there might be a sort of whiplash if they cant fulfill their projections (spending is mostly just on capacity- spending for more huge data centers, just thinking that ai use will multiply and multiply) . anyway- if its anything though like the last thing you could compare this to, which is when good internet infrastructure was first being laid down, fiber optic & stuff, in one of the earlier internet spending rushes- it was overbuilt at first, but then, everyone did find a use for it and it makes up the basic backbone we still use today.
It's being spent on Military AI not just AI
And it's not just going into Palantir it's going into every Palantir wannabe startup, and they're making claims to advertise their product that sound like some jackass at DHS is responsible for making up bullshit tailored to the individual startup
And who even knows maybe laying all the groundwork and data centers only for AI to tank in the majority of fortune 500 companies that tried it was always the plan so that you have an easy excuse to pivot fully into militarized police tech and surveillance everywhere you have these data centers.
I 100% believe that's the end game and anyone not preparing for or fighting to stop that inevitability is asleep.
That would be analogous to what Nazis did with MEFO bills and autobahns - one definitely intended quality of those was troop movement. One can also remember John Lowe and his effect on French ownership of Louisiana.