Daniel C.

The food in Portugal is 🤌 From warm pastel de nata, to fresh seafood pulled straight from the Atlantic, to sweet cherry liqueur like Ginjinha, to perfectly roasted suckling pig, every meal feels simple, flavorful, and done right.

“Growth no longer guarantees jobs.” Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, says AI could create a world with 5–10% GDP growth and still leave millions of people out of work. That breaks the old link between productivity and employment. Software gets cheaper. Companies move faster. Entire careers stop being safe by default.

Not building datacenter is economic self-sabotage. It's also civilizational sabotage, but let's stick to the level most people can relate to. If there's a datacenter built in your area, that means a massive increase in tax revenue flowing into local coffers, which can be used to improve the lives of local residents. It'll mean a few extra jobs, and (because datacenters now have to bring their own power) more abundant available energy, likely at cheaper prices. It's relatively quiet after construction is done, and the only byproduct is heat. They use some water, but not much. Concerns over water have been greatly overblown due to fearmongering and outright lies. There are zero significant downsides. How often can that be said for anything this big? Opposition to datacenters is the height of irrationality, and I just hope enough people realize the benefits before they're all forced up into space.