Funny how these totally unrelated initiatives all end up at the same $500 billion number. What are the chances? Stargate's data centres splurge ✅ Trump's minerals demand from Ukraine ✅ Apple US spending & investment ✅ www.apple.com/newsroom/202... - ThreadSky

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petertl.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Funny how these totally unrelated initiatives all end up at the same $500 billion number. What are the chances?

Stargate's data centres splurge ✅
Trump's minerals demand from Ukraine ✅
Apple US spending & investment ✅

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

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petertl.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Some of the confounding factors might apply to a 78-year-old POTUS, however. A person is more likely to seek the comfort of a round number when required to make a lot of decisions quickly about things they don’t really understand, for instance.”
https://www.ft.com/content/7eafe832-8ca2-407a-90df-7861f8b56193?accessToken=zwAAAZVBJcppkc9-r-gyjKJAetOQ33hh-LVhkw.MEUCIQDskLmDWhk7JCReWJZoJdmQEyu4F9ClJUMw52bSYHrfagIgY-NoqIFmo-7sU4XZGTx-ek50Qm8qInRSndkevLynjUo&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=8a4523c0-c41e-44d0-a79d-68dd4b97f90b

atalaveraecon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reminds me of the bit in "too big to fail" when they do a back of the envelope calculation that yields 1 trillion for TARP, and as no one believes this will ever be passed by Congress they end up agreeing on 700bn. Looks to me this is probably a lot more common than people may think.

jfelixcardoso.bsky.social•7 days ago

You can add the EU plans on defence as another 500Bi initiative

petertl.bsky.social•7 days ago

no point getting out of bed for anything less

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•5 days ago

From what I can gather tech companies now need to spend the GDP of a medium sized country to achieve the tiniest increase in utility.

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