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Danimal28's avatar

A good piece. Anything Pritzker is NOT good.

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Ataraxis's avatar

Nobody wants to work at those South Side sites. Those sites have not been developed even with their prime lake front locations because they’re polluted brownfields from the steel mills, all polluted with heavy metals. My whole family is from there and they all worked in the steel mills. Just the other day I was looking at a photo of my Dad’s mill at 106th Street and Torrence Avenue. Here’s what these areas used to look like. Some of these photos are very old, but I can verify that it looked exactly the same in the 1960-70s. https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2020/07/wisconsin-steel.html

There was a plan decades ago to strip the top 5 feet of soil off of these brownfield sites and barge it down the Illinois River to downstate Illinois landfills, but it never happened because those communities didn’t want Chicago’s toxic waste sitting in their backyards. My Dad’s mill is still an empty lot.

Just a note that these steel mills were all on the Chicago lakefront because iron ore pellets were shipped directly from Minnesota’s Iron Range on Lake Superior to the Chicago steel mills on ore ships owned by the steel companies. All of these mills had large slips for their ships to dock at and unload the ore which was then turned into steel. My Dad’s steel mill was Wisconsin Steel, which was part of International Harvester Corp., which was the successor to the McCormick Reaper Works.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

I pass by the taconite mine in Silver Bay when I drive to my cabin. You can see the big iron ore ships pull into the Duluth harbor.

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John Oh's avatar

Thanks for the on the ground observations. We all think we know, but we don't know as much as we think we do because we're not from there.

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John Oh's avatar

Dischargeable affordable energy is necessary for super computing/ai and the facilities will go where the grid to support it is, or the grid will quickly get built out where the work is getting done. Google etc may do some interesting things in the near future, and it will not be solar and wind powered. It's going to be gas, coal or nukes. We can be prosperous or we can be Germany.

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Whosher's avatar

Nice! Looks similar to Solyndra. Obama the builder’s boondoggle. Wonder where that half a billion ended up?

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Bill Lacey's avatar

This won't work. Pritzker is so enormous, he comes with his own gravitational field. H won't be able to enter the facility without causing a sub-atomic meltdown.

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Ed W999's avatar

Why live in Chicago when you can use the South Shore Railway and live in a cool place like Beverly or Michigan City, Indiana. Also what happened to all the electrical infrastructure that was used by the steel industry way back when in this area? One would think, at least, there would be major electrical feed lines going into this area.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

not enough for sustainable quantum

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Mark Fox's avatar

With Jabba, isn't it always "somebody else's fault' when it fails!

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Mitch Weiner's avatar

The south side of Chicago? Hahahaha

I grew up and lived in the north suburbs and on the North Shore of Chicago as well as the lakefront, including the Gold Coast and have been South for multiple decades and have spent time in those areas and there's just no way in hell that's going to come to fruition. Case in point the Obama library. I mean seriously, look at all the problems they're having and Obama is 10 times more powerful, still to this day, than JB, despite the clamoring for him to run for President.

Ask Howard Tullman about his experience at 1871. Maybe he'll tell you the truth.

If there was a way to buy puts on the quantum computing happening on that land I would buy the legal position limit.

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Brett Hyland's avatar

Yep.

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Michael Wachocki's avatar

Fractal computing. Jay Valentine.

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