I have an idea for the Biden campaign. It relates to Senator Roger Wicker's article this morning in the New York Times, in which he outlines a plan to expand and modernize the U.S. military (weapons, ships, etc) up to 5% of GDP in the coming years (as a deterrent measure against Chinese and Russian aggression).
I have an idea for the Biden campaign. It relates to Senator Roger Wicker's article this morning in the New York Times, in which he outlines a plan to expand and modernize the U.S. military (weapons, ships, etc) up to 5% of GDP in the coming years (as a deterrent measure against Chinese and Russian aggression).
Wicker is from Mississippi, and his article made me think of the economic benefits of a military expansion for states like Mississippi which have suffered economically since 2008.
On another note, a couple of weeks ago, Amazon announced a $10 billion project to build one of the world's largest hyperscale data centers (for the upcoming expansion of AI) in Jackson, Mississippi. Amazon (AWS) officials said that the $10 billion figure is merely a minimum level of investment in Jackson and that the actual figure over the next 7-8 years is likely to be several times that amount (so let's say roughly $30 billion).
Also in the past couple of months, it was announced that just outside Hattiesburg, Mississippi a company is developing America's first "green steel" plant, which will be located next to what will essentially be an underground reservoir of "green hydrogen". The green hydrogen will be produced on the Mississippi Coast and transported via pipelines to underground salt caverns near Hattiesburg, for use by new industries built adjacent to the hydrogen reservoir, starting with the new green steel plant. Mississippi is emerging as a major center for green hydrogen-based industries in the U.S.
The point is that AI and climate-friendly energy projects are already beginning to deliver major economic growth to places such as Mississippi that lack the corporations and institutions that are delivering growth in other places (e.g. banking in Charlotte, healthcare management in Nashville, elite universities in Raleigh, NASA in Huntsville, giant seaport in Charleston), all of which incidentally are heavily funded by government dollars from taxes paid by citizens of all states, not just from those lucky few.
If Senator Wicker's proposal for a major expansion of U.S. military capability were enacted, the new industries accompanying this expansion would likely utilize AI technology and alternative energy sources such as green hydrogen. This military expansion therefore would tie in perfectly with the new industries already arriving in states like Mississippi, such as data centers (for AI) and green hydrogen.
If Biden were to announce his vision for a major, very high-tech expansion of the U.S. military, with a focus on bringing AI- and alternative energy- based industries to states like Mississippi across the heartland of the U.S., I imagine that such a plan would generate huge excitement across the heartland of the nation - which has heretofore been left out of the nation's economic growth for the past 15 years.
I myself am excited about the all the huge new expansions in Mississippi (another is a $2 billion battery plant for electric trucks outside Memphis and a $2 billion aluminum plant in Columbus), so I can imagine how elated Americans in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin might be over the bold new vision for restoring the American military's world dominance while delivering the latest high-tech industries such as AI and hydrogen-based manufacturing to America's heartland.
Such a plan would finally give Americans a reason to vote for Biden, as opposed to only focusing on getting them to vote against Trump.
Hey Tim and David,
I have an idea for the Biden campaign. It relates to Senator Roger Wicker's article this morning in the New York Times, in which he outlines a plan to expand and modernize the U.S. military (weapons, ships, etc) up to 5% of GDP in the coming years (as a deterrent measure against Chinese and Russian aggression).
Wicker is from Mississippi, and his article made me think of the economic benefits of a military expansion for states like Mississippi which have suffered economically since 2008.
On another note, a couple of weeks ago, Amazon announced a $10 billion project to build one of the world's largest hyperscale data centers (for the upcoming expansion of AI) in Jackson, Mississippi. Amazon (AWS) officials said that the $10 billion figure is merely a minimum level of investment in Jackson and that the actual figure over the next 7-8 years is likely to be several times that amount (so let's say roughly $30 billion).
Also in the past couple of months, it was announced that just outside Hattiesburg, Mississippi a company is developing America's first "green steel" plant, which will be located next to what will essentially be an underground reservoir of "green hydrogen". The green hydrogen will be produced on the Mississippi Coast and transported via pipelines to underground salt caverns near Hattiesburg, for use by new industries built adjacent to the hydrogen reservoir, starting with the new green steel plant. Mississippi is emerging as a major center for green hydrogen-based industries in the U.S.
The point is that AI and climate-friendly energy projects are already beginning to deliver major economic growth to places such as Mississippi that lack the corporations and institutions that are delivering growth in other places (e.g. banking in Charlotte, healthcare management in Nashville, elite universities in Raleigh, NASA in Huntsville, giant seaport in Charleston), all of which incidentally are heavily funded by government dollars from taxes paid by citizens of all states, not just from those lucky few.
If Senator Wicker's proposal for a major expansion of U.S. military capability were enacted, the new industries accompanying this expansion would likely utilize AI technology and alternative energy sources such as green hydrogen. This military expansion therefore would tie in perfectly with the new industries already arriving in states like Mississippi, such as data centers (for AI) and green hydrogen.
If Biden were to announce his vision for a major, very high-tech expansion of the U.S. military, with a focus on bringing AI- and alternative energy- based industries to states like Mississippi across the heartland of the U.S., I imagine that such a plan would generate huge excitement across the heartland of the nation - which has heretofore been left out of the nation's economic growth for the past 15 years.
I myself am excited about the all the huge new expansions in Mississippi (another is a $2 billion battery plant for electric trucks outside Memphis and a $2 billion aluminum plant in Columbus), so I can imagine how elated Americans in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin might be over the bold new vision for restoring the American military's world dominance while delivering the latest high-tech industries such as AI and hydrogen-based manufacturing to America's heartland.
Such a plan would finally give Americans a reason to vote for Biden, as opposed to only focusing on getting them to vote against Trump.
Lee Rone
Memphis
It sounds good to me, but I'm afraid Putin's propagandists will figure out a way to persuade MAGA that increasing defense spending is woke.