Github Copilot multipliers for premium requests are going to increase up to 27x tomorrow. Whatching this AI hype, it's just turtles all the way down: How are we going to pay for all this usage with people on fixed monthly plans? <- VCs subsidize us until ASICs are available and code is made more efficicent. Who is going to make these ASICs, chip fabs are at 100%, you need to build new chip fabs? <- VCs will fund building of chip fabs. Ok, you have chip fabs and you still need to build hundreds of square miles worth of power-dense consuming technology, who pays for that? <- VCs pay for the build, rate payers pay for the electrical infra build out. Ooops, turns out ratepayers don't want to shoulder those costs for us, we thought they were unwashed rubes from states we have never been to. Now what do we do? <- BUILD DATACENTERS IN ORBIT! Cool, so turns out it costs $3M for every datacenter rack's worth of weight. Then there's the electrical costs, who pays for that? <- VCs will pay for that. Ok now you have orbital platforms in place, how are the VCs going to recoup their investment and leave behind a sustainable business? ... ... ... ... (with all the rhetorical flourish fitting of someone telling The Aristocrats) Quantum Computing!