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Which states would you speculate will be best long term for AI startups? I would’ve guessed California but it’s looking more important to pick a state less like
by dbish 2y ago
Which states would you speculate will be best long term for AI startups? I would’ve guessed California but it’s looking more important to pick a state less likely to get over their skis with regulation. Washington doesn’t seem yet to be doing this, and no state tax with lots of AI engineers/researchers in Seattle/redmond which is why I’m here. Texas probably won’t add regulations and has similar pros if you’re in Austin. Anywhere else looking like it will crop up if California regulates away the industry?
- brigadier132 2y agoMiami has a population that is extremely ideologically opposed to laws like this.
- dbish 2y agoReally doesn’t seem like Florida is that opposed to banning innovation for incumbents, not the kind of place I’d trust my startup to really given big restrictive state government over small gov https://x.com/andercot/status/1786169027007783227?s=46&t=3ZOOn0d8R-MnGsnHKqJj6Q https://x.com/andercot/status/1786169027007783227?s=46&t=3ZO...
- dbish 2y agoThey don’t seem to have any reason that there would be AI experts there though. No big comp sci universities or existing research labs and tech companies that you can pull talent from.
- brigadier132 2y agoNo but people go where money is. It sucks that California covers 80% of the West coast.
- dbish 2y agoI don’t think that worked when Miami was being hyped over the last few years and I don’t expect that to work in the future. Needs a base of research and big tech to start.
- codexb 2y agoWhat states have good weather year round, already have large urban centers, and better laws and taxes than California? That's basically what it amounts to. That's why cities in Texas and Florida are growing. Seattle has terrible weather. Washington gets cold and their large cities are mismanaged to the point that they're undesirable to live in for well-off families.
- dbish 2y agoThat’s definitely a part of the issue, just hard to see ai startups able to thrive there if things like this go through.
- michaelmrose 2y agoHow are they mismanaged other than having incompetent police?
- dbish 2y agoAs someone who lives in Seattle I can tell you at least two things 1) the homeless population and use of drugs out in the open on sidewalks in the city has gone up significantly and no plan for addressing. 2) the city management tends to be anti-tech, things like pushing Amazon and others out with the head tax and the gig worker min hourly pay and all that which basically shut down use of Uber eats and other delivery services due to misunderstanding economics (which they are now scrambling to reverse since the workers themselves hate it).
- michaelmrose 2y agoThe open use of drugs is offensive but rarely dangerous. I live adjacent to Seatle and have been coming here for 30 years. The gig worker min hourly pay is fine. If it decreases the total demand for deliveries thats ok. I wouldn't want more McJobs for the state to subsidize anyway. Those workers don't cease to exist they just work somewhere else for someone who can actually afford to pay.
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- nradov 2y agoState politics are important, but electricity prices and availability of real estate for new data centers also matters. California has particularly high electricity prices and makes it difficult to construct new industrial facilities (especially near bodies of water that could help with cooling requirements). While companies might locate some employees in CA, the hardware will likely run elsewhere.
- dbish 2y agoThat’s been true for a while though. Datacenters re not usually near your software engineers and researchers
- bryan_w 2y agoTennessee -- It has a dam for power needs
- dbish 2y agoi don't see a bunch of tech people moving to tennessee, doesn't seem like a culture match