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Energy beat: AI Requires an Explosion in Power
Every tech report acknowledges “that deploying AI at scale will lead to massive increases in electricity demand,” since “the digital economy runs on hardware, and hardware consumes a lot of energy,” notes City Journal’s Mark P. Mills. “A single large AI data center can use as much electricity as 2 million households.” Offsetting the prices of this hovering demand will “exponential” beneficial properties in “energy-efficiency.” Then again, AI will enhance productiveness, including maybe “a cumulative $10 trillion above projections to U.S. GDP over the coming decade,” and so sprak additional “spur growth in energy demand.” Hence the tech group’s demand for an “all options on the table” power plan, ending “the past decade’s monomaniacal obsession with wind and solar as the only options.”
Liberal: Both Parties Are Losing Ground
Most political commentary is lacking “the collapse of trust in the two traditional parties, increasing independence among voters, and rising allegiance to an undefined ‘neither’ party,” warns the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin. Per ample polling information, “lots of Americans do not like the positions and brands of the only two parties” they will “choose from in most elections,” nor do they match any “alternative third party at the moment.” “Given the mounting number of economic and social concerns among Americans, a failed two-party system cannot endure indefinitely.” Today’s parties should every “bring in more voters with more diverse views” with an “agenda that delivers for people,” or “dwindle in membership” and “retreat into ideological purity” whereas “other Americans search for alternatives.”
From the correct: Dems’ Identity-Politics Blinders
“Liberals are in denial,” contends The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley, however even The New York Times admits “Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties,” whereas Democrats are shedding “Black, white and Latino” working-class voters alike. Blame the left’s “identity-based appeals,” argues Riley. “Minority voters are courted as minorities rather than as Americans who have the same priorities — good schools, safe neighborhoods, gainful employment — as everyone else.” Dems fake “Hispanics don’t care about illegal immigration” and that “blacks think policing is a bigger problem than crime,” although polls recommend the other. “This is what happens when a small subset of progressives set the policy agenda for tens of millions of people.” And as long as Democrats refuse to change, “Republicans stand to benefit.”
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Libertarian: JD’s Free-Market Double Standard
Veep JD Vance’s “position on bitcoin is” seemingly far out of step “with his stated views — and those of the Trump administration, more generally,” on market forces, snarks Reason’s Eric Boehm. In a Newsmax interview, Vance defined the administration’s hands-off method to cryptocurrency: “What you shouldn’t have is a dictatorial government that tells certain industries they’re not allowed to do what they need to do.” Says Boehm: “That’s exactly right,” however “from trade to immigration (which is an economic issue, yes) to minutiae” like “how many dolls American kids get to play with, the Trump administration is demanding more dictatorial government that tells industries exactly what to do.” Sorry: “The benefits of the free market should not be reserved exclusively for people who invent and use cryptocurrency.”
Media watch: They Just Don’t Learn
“If you thought that the media would have a come-to-Jesus moment” after their “debacle” protecting the Biden presidency, “think again,” scoffs Joe Concha on the Washington Examiner. A current Media Research Center examine reveals President Trump has gotten simply 8% constructive protection and 92% destructive in his first 4 months back in workplace on ABC, NBC and CBS, regardless of his great outcomes on the border, inflation, unemployment and different points. The “good news”? Trump gained final November regardless of destructive protection: “Legacy media influence is a fraction of what it once was.” So “for the next 42 months of Trump’s presidency, expect more of the same”: “Ratings will continue to fall, as will readership.” And for the outdated media, “so will trust.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
