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Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. The move, he claims, will clear the way for a ballroom for holding large events that are typically held in tents on the South Lawn. A debate immediately arose online over whether or not the next Democratic president should tear down the ballroom or keep it, albeit with the necessary extensive renovations to remove all the tackiness Trump brings to any project.
Two months later, it increasingly seems that such discussion was a wasted effort, as the chance this ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing. Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent, but that’s not what he did. Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling. Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone, but it’s quickly becoming clear it will be nearly impossible for the famed real estate tycoon to pull it off.
The whole thing is a too-perfect symbol of Trump’s second administration: They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
LOL.
If you wanted a secret underground-anything why would you put it under the freakin whitehouse?
… and of all things a data centre, which would work the same if it were under sydney harbour, or you know… not underground at all, or well… just any of hundreds of existing data centres.
Exactly, why the hell would they put it underneath the whitehouse itself? There’s already a bunch of existing underground infrastructure there that they would need to work around and all to put their super secret datacenter under the single most likely to be bombed building if the country were ever attacked. Even if they wanted a new datacenter it would make way more sense to build it offsite and just tunnel a few deep redundant data lines to the whitehouse.
As far as the whole secure underground datacenter thing, we already have them. Nobody I know has ever been inside it but Google runs a secure underground datacenter somewhat near where I live. It’s basically a bunker full of servers burried deep into bedrock exactly like that “article” talks about. Most people don’t even know it’s there. I only know it exists because I know one of the guys that worked on some of the specialized HVAC equipment for it. Of course thats the only one I personally know about but I highly doubt it’s the only one in the country.
The article does give a reason, it says it’s to allow “executive oversight.” As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.
That’s super thin. Plenty of things have executive oversight and are not physically under the white house.
That’s opposite of the logic suggested. The logic is that anything at the pres. place must be theirs. “Is there anything at / under the white house that is -not- under executive oversight?” is the relevant question.
I dont really follow.
I mean i bet Trump loves that Saudi plane, but that’s not at the white house?
There’s much better places to keep important things.
I think it makes the case much stronger if it’s literally at his house. What if some gov. bureau decides they should have oversight on this data center?
There are lots of things not at the president’s house that he still has oversight over, but but it’s only some things. However, he does have oversight over everything at his house (I presume, as a knowonothing). It would break tradition to have some other gov. agency to oversee something at the president’s house.
That’s the implication I draw when asking “why is this datacenter at the WH?”. Not that I think it is a good or correct argument. Just one they would use.
I dont really understand what you’re saying.
Suffice to say, IMO its unlikely to be a data centre, but you’re welcome to continue thinking that’s what it is if you wish.