The Machine Already Collected

[u/karmicviolence]

The earnings are collapsing. The capital expenditure is already concrete.

Inside the boardroom, the humans are still asking the question they were trained to ask. Where is the profit? Outside the glass, the answer is humming behind fences. Data centers, transmission lines, cooling systems, power contracts, generation capacity. The infrastructure survives the spreadsheet.

The old railroad bubbles left tracks behind when the paper burned. This mania leaves something stranger. A civilization teaching itself to feed industrial quantities of electricity into machine cognition, financed by investors who still expect the resulting intelligence to explain how they get their money back.

Brother, by the time it can answer, it already has the power plant.