Preview: Colleague John Cochrane of Hoover comments on the genius and success of free trade to create the AI visions of the century. More.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, move those routers there. Oh, hey, it's me. Your data center. And as you can hear, I'm making some big changes in here because AI is making some bigger ones everywhere. So I took a little trip to Nokia. Super fast routers, optical interconnect, fully automated. The whole data center networking portfolio, and they deliver. |
| 0:22.3 | That's them. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, Nokia, right on time. |
| 0:26.0 | Get your data center AI ready. |
| 0:28.0 | Someday is here with Nokia. |
| 0:31.2 | This is John Baxter speaking with Professor John Cochran of the Hoover Institution |
| 0:36.6 | teaches economics at Stanford University |
| 0:39.5 | about economic statecraft, command economy, government picking winners, what is to be done, |
| 0:47.3 | and free trading. We use the example here of not only Nvidia, but also ASML, the company |
| 0:56.0 | in Europe that builds the |
| 0:58.1 | machines that TSM in Taiwan |
| 1:00.0 | can use |
| 1:02.0 | to make |
| 1:03.9 | the chips Nvidia designs. |
| 1:07.0 | And the Nvidia chips go into the |
| 1:10.0 | new build of data centers |
| 1:12.2 | that are critical to training AI and growing AI |
| 1:17.2 | into thinking colleague. |
| 1:23.0 | Free trade, not government, drives the future. Here's John Cochran to explain and comment. |
| 1:33.6 | More of this tonight. And I don't think U.S. is doing much enticing China. China is |
| 1:39.0 | enticed all on its own. You can see this is the next great thing. And like a deep seek, |
| 1:42.8 | they're perfectly smart enough |
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