The County Bets on the Machine Age
from Reporting from the Uncanny Valley
Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 4. Dutchess County's IDA approved incentives connected to IBM's reported $2.5097 billion quantum project, while East Fishkill separately imposed a three-year pause on large data centers. A quantum facility is not a data center, and the county is betting on both futures at once. What the draft minutes say, what the moratorium covers, and what it means for the Hudson Valley. Full articles at rftuv.ai.
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- 0:00 Two Opposite Technology Votes in Dutchess County
- 1:04 IBM’s $2.5 Billion Quantum Computing Project
- 2:50 Why Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Matters
- 5:10 Jobs, Incentives, and the County’s Leverage
- 7:26 East Fishkill Pauses Large Data Centers
- 10:50 The Scale and Stakes of the Data Center Debate
- 13:00 Who Bears the Risk of Technology Infrastructure?
- 15:41 What to Watch Next
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