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Could AI be the next railroad boom?

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Could AI be the next railroad boom?

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the similarities between the railroads

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and AI,

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the AI boom at the moment. What you see

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with the railroads is a massive building

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program. Um and what you're doing with

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the railroads is you're building

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before demand. You're anticipating

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demand and you're creating demand.

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>> Build it and they will come.

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>> Absolutely. You're you're you're

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creating demand. So, when you build a

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railroad through a place uh there's

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nobody there at first. But [laughter]

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when when when the when the railroad

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arrives, they're there. So, the value of

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the land that you're linking to the East

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Coast is massively increased. But

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there's a lot of speculative building,

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there's a lot of borrowing of capital.

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>> And there are a lot of bankruptcies.

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The video discusses the economic parallels between the historical expansion of railroads and the current AI boom, highlighting the trend of building infrastructure before demand exists.

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