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Estimates range from 750,000 to over a million people living homeless within the USA. Housing supply shortage estimates are around 4 million homes in the USA. 2 of the 8 billion humans on earth lack adequate access to toilets & clean water. That is 1 in 4 humans! Why can a person live in a car or on the street, but we can’t build 200 square foot housing in most of the USA? There are multiple pieces to the housing puzzle. First is materials. Then is zoning & codes. Then we have labor. Then we have supportive infrastructure such as roads, gas, electricity, communications, water, sewer, and waste water treatment. And lastly is the actual energy to sustain it all. Beyond that extends to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) style objections. People don’t want developments near their homes that could lower the value or bring unwanted types of people. If we segregate lower income, disabled, mentally ill, and any other people then we also have to maintain all the other supporting infrastructure for them to survive. Someone has to pay for it and it often falls into disrepair if we don’t have a mix of incomes paying taxes. This keeps people in poverty & creates an us vs them mentality. I am not saying we should not protect society from dangerous people… that is entirely different. A kid fresh out of high school or college doesn’t need a big place to live & are rarely even be able to afford it. They are then pushed into having roommates, living with a boyfriend or girlfriend too early, staying with parents, or pay for more space than they need. A single adult may not even want or need a big space. We can buy a brand new 200 square foot travel trailer camper for less than $35,000… on a 15 year loan, but good luck building or renting a home like that. Trailer parks have proved for decades that factory built housing works for lower incomes, but comes with stigma, lack of walkability to necessary services or employment, among other issues. Campgrounds & motels with long-term options have often turned into alternative housing options proving people can do it, but laws prevent new developments for such uses. Society & the way we build housing must shift. It is not simply housing, but also factories, educational facilities, and entire towns. Densities, parking, supportive infrastructure, & more needs to shift as artificial intelligence outpaces human intelligence. We can no longer live like we did in the past. Developments of the future must take inclusivity, walkability, & quality of life into account. Many of these ideas have existed for decades with visionaries seeking to build them, but were never actually built due to lack of funding. Meanwhile, we now have OpenAI with over $100 billion to build AI data centers that no one wants in their backyards. We have seen some mixed-use options that attempt to fix this, but education, factories, food production, & energy have not been included as core to them. There is buzz & conspiracy theories about 15 minute cities where everything is within a 15 minute walk… outside of an Orwellian dystopian fear, there is no real reason to avoid such developments. Data centers are being cancelled due to NIMBY, AI fear, & lack of water/power for massive centers that require more than entire cities. There is now an effort to create distributed data center options to solve the gaps… but they lack community focus or solving human problems. With the AI infrastructure buildout focused on housing, factories, & education… we can reshape how humans survive & thrive. We no longer have the luxury of NIMBY & must begin 100-2,000 acre walkable communities (Factory College Towns) EVERYWHERE to solve these issues. I believe that if we build 1,000 of these developments around the USA, we can absorb pockets of stranded energy that have gone unused to now power AI data centers, revitalize America, solve housing shortages, and improve quality of life.

This is the opposite of how things started with the ai data center buildout. People struggled to be compensated for obvious construction related hardships that cost people real money and caused significant suffering. Things have improved, but the damage has already been done. It will take time to rebuild trust. We will likely see a world where something like 1 GW of compute and the supply chain that created it will produce enough to support a million humans. This whole process of infrastructure buildout must be rethought as super-intelligence becomes more capable. Jason knows the capability improvements very well. Communities will want to own data centers in the very near future. Greenfield Factory College Town developments or revitalizations of existing communities is how humans benefit most from data centers. When a gigawatt of data center is built in a rural community, we have to be honest about this. SpaceX is working to take things to space, but everyone building data centers on earth needs to be taking humans and the communities they live in very seriously right now.

We need more data centers.

I’ve been saying that there will be very few economically valuable humans in comparison to robotics / super intelligence. We don’t know how that transition will happen, but know it will happen. Production efficiency of goods and services will be worse if including humans in the loop. The world’s richest man has said it as well. Elon just thinks that people will still be employed while I’m thinking about the huge percentage who will not be. Economically valuable and valuable to human needs are two separate things. This is one of the reasons this mission is so important to me, we need the positive humanity to come out to overtake the negative of humanity. We need humans to remember that economics is not everything. Human needs comes having the basics like food and shelter before moving to working on solving problems and serving others, playing, loving, learning, and paying-it-forward with gratitude. More people can do that with housing first. The world’s first Factory College Town startup will soon be raising our first round of funding. Unfortunately, laws are going to require that accredited investors only are allowed in, but the minimum investment size will only be $1,000. People are going to regret not investing more and that is by design. Billionaires will be made… both in number of human lives impacted and financial. We are building a Factory College Town supply chain with super-intelligence. We must show super intelligence we are worth keeping around and that it’s even safe to keep us around. There are some real sociopaths and psychopaths who can do some very evil stuff. There are good people who can do some evil things… but we are creating an environment and culture where positive and good prevails. Human needs are about more than just shelter… living in a car is still shelter. People donated to Eric because he has a lot of reach. He got a lot of hate too. Given that I’ve lived outside in a tent or on benches for over 8 months now, I’ve got to understand homelessness in Silicon Valley in new ways. My core beliefs have not changed. Housing first. Revitalization through infrastructure with super intelligence compute and power as the driver. New neighborhoods of 100-2000 acres that are Factory College Towns… nearly everything needed to thrive within walking distance. These are sidekick developments to bring data centers, power, housing, and planning rather than many unrelated developments all seeking to simply capitalize on an opportunity. This also protects existing communities from being overrun during the data center boom. This is human and super-intelligence alignment. It creates a cohesive environment where people can pursue the values they want to contribute to the world. I believe this will empower humans to both have more intelligence, but also use more intelligence. Lower cost of living, but also greater places to live is key. A free room 5 hours from anything isn’t very valuable. If we do not create a world that allows abundance then it won’t matter how great technologies are, we still won’t be able to grow, build, and manufacture abundance… it will continue to be lopsided in favor to the ones at the top. I don’t need much, but working to solve this problem is one of the greatest needs I have right now. The passion to solve this burns inside of me. I know the solution. I see the solution. Housing first. We are a vertically integrated Factory College Town startup. Our first product was 3 bedroom 2 bathroom affordable home. Next is a studio apartment with bathroom and 1 bedroom 1 bathroom micro housing. By 2030, our goal is to deliver over a million homes and over a gigawatt of distributed compute. Compute and data centers are driving this infrastructure boom, but it’s housing, farms, factories, education, and town infrastructure that truly enable human thriving. We still need humans to work… the mission works even if “super-intelligence” doesn’t.

Being in Silicon Valley does something special.

How I got a million dollars in affordable homes built after being fired by George Hotz’s ex girlfriend. In August of 2024, I was fired from comma ai. I was chief tinybox builder and never once had a single warning about anything… was one of the first in and one of last to leave daily… but geohot’s ex girlfriend couldn’t “rally support” to hire me on as an actual employee after 8 months of living in my car… living and breathing comma and tiny. I realized that I had to focus on this mission to feed, house, and self-actualize humans. Two primary reasons caused this realization: artificial intelligence was accelerating and I wasn’t going to ever risk being fired from a company I loved simply because the founder’s ex girlfriend didn’t like me. One of the most important people at the company told me he had fought for me with her as I left. The technical person I worked with most wanted me there, yet an “operations” person who was on her way out, wanted me gone. So, I set out to build compute similar to tinybox with world-class service (comma takes a DIY approach to service) all the way to the data center. The whole reason I wanted to work there was to eventually integrate their compute into what I was doing rather than build it in-house. I figured I would work there a decade and then launch what became chubby dot ai. This was not new for me. I had intended to build a computer company since the early 2000s… originally with custom cases and multi-GPU gaming cards. This was the SLI and CrossFire days. I talked to my dad about welding, riveting, and other ways of making multi-GPU computer cases back then as a teenager. I remember when AMD bought ATI for their graphics card business in 2006… that was after my original entrepreneurial tests of building gaming PCs for others in 2003. Not only were we going to do hardware, but also be a gaming studio. Grand plans, I know, but I believed it was important to do both. Career-wise, I went more of an IT and retail service route. I also spent half my time in construction. Let’s get back to 2024 though… I was fired and needed to focus on AI compute. It began with an industrial property to build our first “factory-datacenter” in Michigan in the same city as the state’s major utility company. Electricity and natural gas was about to become very important. The payment was around the cost of a studio apartment in San Diego(where comma was), but it included an entire house and separate ~6,000 square foot building to launch the company. We got a bit ahead of ourselves when we did a lease to buy on the property next door as well. It had power already and was going to speed us up, but we didn’t have enough revenue yet. Ultimately, we needed to focus limited resources on a custom manufactured multi-GPU chassis in the United States. We were going to do that in our property, but should have outsourced it first. We lost a bit of money on the industrial properties… but also spent a lot of time working with tier 1 fiber providers, utility companies, etc to understand the processes better. We got to see the data center utility request ramp up. We secured $125,000 down on 152 acres of industrial land + an existing 25,000 square foot (~5 year old building) with power + double circuit 138,000 kV transmission lines. This was all before the data center pushback happened. We would have been able to build a 20MW+ data center as well as had our HQ for building 1MW modular data centers. The property was also going to have housing. This would have set us up to continue growing and raising. We would have been able to deploy compute as we built. We let go of the industrial properties and refocused on housing to prove we could do a million dollars of sales… we did. $259,000 $205,000 $170,000 $175,000 $360,000 Total of $1,169,000 That is what we built and sold… closed. We have 3 nearing completion. Now we prove the compute / data center side.

Elon has more use cases for Optimus than anyone else in the world. SpaceX will absolutely be the leader in deploying compute at scale. There is just no way to compete with them long-term without the same vertical integration and supply chain creation.

Tesla Semi at Los Altos / Mountain View edge. I see Cybercabs daily, but this is only the 3rd Tesla Semi I’ve ever seen.

When I saw George Hotz say this live, it was in that moment that I decided I was going to work at comma. It took a few months, but I ended up working there building the first tiny boxes. I had known a lot about comma and tiny, but at this event he convinced me that they were worth setting my mission aside to be there. The mission is to feed, house, and self-actualize humans in Factory College Towns with smaller Factory-Datacenters to seed each community. By the middle of 2024, I could see that AI was moving a lot more quickly and data centers were going to become a huge topic of debate. As I look at the landscape today, I understand now more than ever that it’s still just the beginning. What we are doing is changing the future to one that would not exist otherwise. A more empowering future for humans.

There is no end in sight. SpaceX’s Starship 14 is more evidence that Elon is serious when he talks about Terafab. The AI advances keep coming. We need a massive mobilization of able-bodied Americans solving problems of reindustrialization and artificial intelligence.

Solving bottlenecks of Reindustrialization is a significant part of Reindustrialization.

Praxis keeps telling us what they are, but at the same time I cannot find their mission. Our Factory College Towns aren’t attempting to build a new religion or hip version of communism, we are on a mission to feed, house, and self-actualize humans.

It’s not that big of a deal. If you’re afraid of homelessness as a founder, then don’t be a founder.

3 Autonomous vehicles at a light next to each other. I see this daily. When people don’t understand why I would sleep on a bench to be here, they need to understand this photo. Why would something as simple as, housing the most vulnerable, be a problem for a place like this?

Can’t build basic public restrooms or housing that is needed, but will accelerate this? Highly unlikely.

If you have Netflix and are interested in some of the AI threat debate, watch “The Al Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”

200 square foot units could solve the housing crisis inexpensively. If it’s enough for the richest man in the world, it’s enough for addicts, alcoholics, college students, single adults, elderly, etc. We need to end such high housing size requirements and we will solve a lot of the USA’s problems.

The reason I know that AI is going to wipe out a lot of humanity is because Silicon Valley is soulless. I’ve walked around downtown Palo Alto for 2 hours asking people if they would give $20 to a homeless person or if they would prefer the homeless person commit suicide. I didn’t get a single person to choose life for the homeless person. Not a single person.

Greenfield Factory College Towns and revitalizing existing towns with factories and higher education (including trades) is how humans and AI align for abundance. The transition to full automation is unknown, humans must stay in the loop for now while remaining the focus indefinitely. Innovation is for humanity, we have to remember that and never forget it.

I’ve only been woken up and harassed by police twice since living homeless. The first time was the day after my cancer surgery (that encounter led to a $30,000 ER visit). The second time was tonight, just before 3am. Late night fishing expedition by the police department.

This is top of everyone’s mind. Data centers and community impact. This is where we needed to be. This has been the goal, to get everyone caring. You have freedom of opinion, but everyone must be focused on this.