“There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.”
– Investigative reporter and
The Fort Bragg Cartel (2025) author
Seth Harp, on America’s dangerous AI gamble that he deems the “biggest capital outlay ever.” Pointing at
Stephen Witt’s
reporting on the race to cover the world in data centers, Harp reminds us that “OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter.”
