Charles Hugh Smith

AI Data Centers Are Not Like Railroads (2:11 min) youtu.be/6hzh20n4Dbg?si… via @YouTube

AI Data Centers Are Not Like Railroads (2:11 minutes) open.substack.com/pub/charleshug…

The idea that the current bubble in AI data centers is an echo of the railroad-construction bubble of the 1870s is appealing--but only half-right. oftwominds.com/blogjune26/AI-…

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The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative consequences and costs. charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/06/ai-dat…

AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today open.substack.com/pub/charleshug…

What Is Success? What Is Failure? Why It Matters open.substack.com/pub/charleshug…

The system we inhabit isn't transparently fair, it's transparently corrupt, the perfection of self-service passing itself off as manifesting the noble ideals of "capitalism" and "democracy." /5 More: oftwominds.com/blogmay26/radi…

All the technologies of AI aren't additive and liberating; they're powerful tools that optimize centralized control and extraction. The claim is that AI will help us but the real goal is to use us. /4

I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we're told it is: /1

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Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life? charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/05/could-…

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Here's Why Consumer Sentiment Is at Record Lows -- I narrate key points in my post "Why Is Consumer Sentiment at Record Lows?" (1:44 min) open.substack.com/pub/charleshug…

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