When your legacy newspaper is bleeding millions, it is time to focus your energy on making dark factories. Of course, legacy media would never use that phrase in the same sentence of a Western oligarch, but that’s what’s on the table.

Except this isn’t a magic bullet for North America, either. From upgrading infrastructure to training, this takes time.

And, meanwhile, China, already on the cutting edge of dark factories, gets further and further ahead. The US can’t play catch up.

I am an advocate for AI, but I do not advocate building Frankensteins parasitically: by the time such a factory was up and running in the US, China will outdo it by a mile because they have the system and architecture in place.

Bezos isn’t a visionary: he is a robber barons who follows trends. And he has a good PR department that has an in with the Daily Mail and New York Post.

After all, you cannot buy a system off the shelf with VC money; China built theirs piece by piece while the West gutted its own industrial nerves, and you don’t fix a hollowed‑out economy by giving the gravedigger a shinier shovel.