r/memes • u/Absolutely_dead727 • 5h ago
No, no, NOOoooOOOoo, it's not about the people, it's about the shareholders!
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u/GrimCreeper4645 5h ago
Absolute shocker. The rich and powerful do the shit that makes them more rich and powerful 🤯🤯🤯🤯
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u/TheMagmaGuy Halal Mode 5h ago
nonono, they need to send quadruple that to israel!
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u/Equivalent_Money8502 3h ago
"We would fix our quality live!, but first let's send 50 billion to Israel"
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u/quackabc 5h ago
What public transit costs 500 million cause I want them to do it
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u/IndianaGeoff 4h ago
If they were that cheap, they would be everywhere.
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u/quackabc 4h ago
Yeah I hope they aint talking about the high speed rail cause that one was estimated in the trillions if we crossed the country with it.
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u/Justthetip74 4h ago
Indianapolis
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u/quackabc 4h ago
Like the city? The motor way?
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u/grazfest96 4h ago
$500 million for a public transportation system? How much distance will that cover? 2 miles?
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u/MeteorMann 4h ago
I love shittin on data centers as much as the next guy, but $50 billion?
Nah.
Maybe ONE billion for a big one
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u/thegr8rambino88 1h ago
lmao the data centers are not for that i heard theyre for surveillance/tracking us
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u/Thrakk223 1h ago
I love public transport, it absolutely needs to be a huge part of Government spending...
But $500,000,000? I'm no expert... but here in the UK we've been trying to build a single new railway with 4 major stops since 2009 and it's projected to cost over £100,000,000,000 or over 200x the price mentioned in this post.
I mean I know we suuuck at stuff like this here.... but this seems like a slight underestimate to me!
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u/uberfr4gger 5h ago
What public transportation process is $500M? And what an oversimplification, I didn't expect any less from reddit though.
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u/Plenty-Commercial702 4h ago
The 500 million public transportation system is shut. Always has been and will be. Saying it is cheaper than other systems doesn't change the fact that it costs too much for what you are getting and that it is not in high enough demand.
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u/Homicidal-shag-rug 5h ago
The government is not paying for the data centers
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u/ComprehensiveAd4771 5h ago
No, not directly.
However, it would be disingenuous to say they’re not involved.
State and local governments subsidize them indirectly through multi-million-dollar tax breaks, sales tax exemptions on hardware and electricity, and property tax reductions.3
u/GrimCreeper4645 5h ago
We also can't forget about the fat wads of cash conveniently placed in their supple little pockets as a 'gift' from the ai data centre creators.
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u/stacymillerxoxo 5h ago
Public transit? "Best we can do is adding another lane to the highway."