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Rothmus @Rothmus - Video: Abilene became ground zero for a $500 billion AI buildout because Texas stayed out of the way and private capital showed up with shovels.
Trump announced Stargate in January 2025 with Altman, Ellison, and Son. First campus is already rising on 875 acres in a city of 125,000. Thousands of construction jobs overnight plus hundreds of permanent high pay tech jobs.
According to Gov. Abbott, low taxes and light regulation pulled the capital other states chase for years and never land.
A town nobody mentioned in AI conversations is now pouring the foundation because government got out of the way.
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Rothmus @Rothmus - Video: Europe regulated AI first and made itself the last place companies want to ship the real models.
The AI Act hit in August 2024 with fines up to 7% of global revenue.
Meta responded by withholding its newest systems from Europeans entirely while Apple delayed its own features over the same legal fog.
Even Mistral, Europe’s homegrown champion, publicly begged Brussels to drop the strictest rules because they would leave European firms unable to compete.
Brussels spent years building a framework to control the technology. American companies just kept building the technology, and a growing share of the world’s AI capital went to the country that let them do it first.
https://x.com/Rothmus/status/2096224635079524579

Rothmus @Rothmus - Video: Europe regulated AI first and made itself the last place companies want to ship the real models.
The AI Act hit in August 2024 with fines up to 7% of global revenue.
Meta responded by withholding its newest systems from Europeans entirely while Apple delayed its own features over the same legal fog.
Even Mistral, Europe’s homegrown champion, publicly begged Brussels to drop the strictest rules because they would leave European firms unable to compete.