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No, the CHIPs act was a direct result of Covid-19 highlighting the fact that we do not posses the ability to produce the amount of chips required by both private companies and federal agencies. When trade from China basically stopped, companies were scrambling to source the chips required to continue production. CHIPs was an attempt to solve that. What if the next emergency is not a natural disaster, but a consequence of wartime action. Our weapons needs those chips.

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If that happens, the govt will commandeer all the Big Tech data centers, and strip-mine them for gpus to stick inside weapons.

Kinda-sorta like how car factories were repurposed to produce military aircraft during World War II.

I think it'll be ironic if things come to that -- NVidia unable to get fresh silicon, and scads of them sitting around, powering LLMs... we could see amazing shenanigans where certain folks cut deals (cough graft cough) to get to keep most of their gpus, while others get liquidated, and implode.

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And you think that's acceptable and our only play being desperation looting of our economy is a "fine" place to be?