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by mrweasel 1878 days ago
$430B seems like more than you'd need for a good PR stunt.
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skrtskrt 1878 days ago
It's $0 if you were already going to spend it anyway
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perardi 1878 days ago
I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless, but they packaged it into a nice press release at a potentially fraught political moment.

And…$430 billion over 5 years is a lot, but what if it influences tax or tariff rates just a bit in your direction over a 10-year period? Because that could be worth it, especially, again, if you were going to set up that new campus anyway.

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zepto 1878 days ago
> I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless

Regardless of what?

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perardi 1878 days ago
Regardless of this PR they put out.

This spend was probably in the books, so let’s wrap it in a nice bow before Congressional hearings.

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zepto 1878 days ago
It seems inconceivable that they wouldn’t have made a PR announcement about a large investment in the US, regardless.
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