Even if true, they also have to account for training costs or else they'll never break even.

As for Vietnam, they're suffering from tariffs, why are you assuming they're also no negatively affected by the Trump admin?

And if we wanted to help another country, working with the international community should be the only approach we take.

We've spent many decades overthrowing countries to what end? Even our vassals like Israel have universal healthcare while we're all in debt because of healthcare. It's not working and needs to stop.

Why do you feel this way? Are you talking about frontier models from US companies or smaller weight open source models?

From the perspective of US companies, it seems pretty clear they're severely under water and will need some way to become profitable or risk collapse, so how else will they do that or they than jacking up prices or some unknown future miracle advancement?

I could see the argument applied to self-hosted/OSS models tho.

"AI" data centers consume massive amounts of energy per square foot, have been caught using LNG generators for power, have polluted ground water, material usage, habitat destruction, etc

How about you provide some proof?

(PS I'm not advocating that golf courses are good for the environment - they're not - but data centers are absolutely not "zero on the pollution scale" that is laughable)

Harvard University Law Press: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-profits-from-the-pub...

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/ai-data-centers-electricity-...

There are many more if you care to look

It's pretty well documented that datacenters (esp the AI variety) are offloading grid expenses to customers as higher baseline costs.

The issue is that these DCs are not paying for the cost of the necessary grid upgrades but are instead having the power cos pass these costs off to all consumers as base increases.

The argument here tho is the amount of jobs provided does not do a good enough job counteracting the downsides (noise, ground water pollution, generator air pollution, grid load and offset costs to customers, etc). In most cases these far outweigh <50 jobs if you look at overall cost/benefits.