Trump Announces $500 Billion For Obsolete Technology

Even Trump cannot outrun Moore's Law

Even great presidents can be sold complete nonsense - and it appears President Trump was sold a huge load of crap about “Stargate” building $500 billion worth of data centers.

Data centers exist for only one reason - I/O intensive applications - in particular relational databases - in very particular - Oracle.

You will recall from previous posts, I/O is input/output and it is what all current applications do. They do it particularly badly - so badly that the CPU core - when measured with instruments - works less than a government worker on a break.

Most of the time the CPU is doing no useful effort - it is waiting for an I/O instruction.

Oracle and current technology is massively I/O intensive - because Oracle uses this thing called the relational model.

Oracle, and all relational databases are an artifact of the 1970s - or early 80s.

Oracle and a dozen other companies emerged in the early 80s with relational tech.

Relational means you store your data in rows and columns.

When Oracle arrived - I was at the creation - most companies had no database at all.

If they had one, it was on the mainframe - it came either from IBM or Cullinet - and it was something called an embedded pointer, network system.

Embedded pointer systems were a huge pain in the ass because if anything changed, it was heart surgery to adjust the database. They were super-efficient - but the skills to work them were prohibitive.

Companies needed flexibility and the relational model was just fine for almost all corporate applications.

Along came Moore’s Law.

Moore’s Law says computers get faster by making smaller chips (so the electrons travel faster). Systems like Oracle and other relational systems were just fine - because chips ran faster and faster.

That was the program until the last few years.

Nobody disputes Moore’s Law hit its guardrail.

Chips aren’t getting faster - because they cannot be made smaller.

So if you cannot make stuff run faster, you need bigger data centers - using more kilowatts, destroying farmland.

Thus, the move to quantum computing - making computers do things a million times faster - with different physics than silicon etchings on a chip.

The problem with quantum computing is you need new hardware - new skills - so quantum hardware is a decade away for most corporate and government applications.

Gartner, the technology analysis organization most mindless CIOs (chief information officers) listen to said 2 years ago the current tech stack is essentially obsolete in 2025.

That tech stack is pretty much the relational database.

So here we are, in 2025, with Trump announcing half a trillion dollars to be invested in 1970s data center infrastructure - which is obsolete - because it relies on I/O intensive underpinnings.

When one reduces - to almost eliminating I/O - the outcomes change radically.

You do not need data centers anymore - applications run 1,000 to a million times faster, you save zillions of megawatts , farmland need not be turned into data centers.

Read that again - because it is now provably at hand - and even Trump isn’t going to stop that concept from becoming the new normal in about 24 months.

Data centers are obsolete.

Fractal can prove there is no application anywhere - commercial application - that requires a data center.

You may want to read that again too - particularly if you are a SQL type - because we can prove it with current, running systems.

Trump’s emerging hurdle is what the Romans called a scruple. A stone in one’s shoe - or in their case, a sandal.

That pebble is insignificant - but under pressure in your shoe, it becomes the focus of the moment until removed.

Unfortunately for President Trump, Fractal is that stone.

Fortunately for Fractal, President Trump, flanked by the obsolete technology infrastructure guy, made data centers everywhere a thing!

Fractal technology cracked the code on I/O reduction to such a point that data centers are now obsolete - and we and our small, but hugely successful customers are proving it every day.

We don’t ask anyone to believe us - because when an idea comes forth - and disrupts current conventional thinking, there is no way to keep it in a bottle - even if we wanted to - which of course, we don’t.

The venture community found its way to our doorstep - and 13 months ago offered us $100 million for 10% of the company. They knew the I/O world was changing drastically and knew we had an answer - working today - in huge production sites - so we aren’t a risk.

The world needs quantum-speed, today, on current hardware, without data centers - and we have it.

We are not quantum, we are quantum-speed on current hardware.

That is a difference of kind so radical that current customers are beginning to grasp its implications.

We neither needed the money nor want VC partners, so we passed.

Our customers are not too crazy about us demonstrating their systems to potential new customers - and we wouldn’t do that.

So we build demonstration systems.

You may recall we took the entire Federal Election Commission database - which - you guessed it - is a big relational database.

It’s about 680,000,000 records. It needs a huge data center backed up by a 7 figure yearly bill for a cloud (which is someone else’s data center).

It consumes the energy an enterprise data center would - like the kilowatts for a small neighborhood.

We took that database and ran it in Fractal, quantum-speed technology.

We do not use relational anything - we create databases on the fly which represent how the data is MOST EFFICIENTLY PROCESSED - which is almost NEVER relational.

We demonstrate the entire FEC system, running on a computer you can hold in your HAND.

Our Fractal FEC system runs 1,000 times faster then the government’s relational system.

Our FEC system uses the power of a microwave oven - the kind you have in your kitchen - the government’s relational system has a 5 figure monthly bill.

Our FEC system is supported by one engineer, 3 hours a month - the government relational system has over 80 full time employees.

Our FEC system can run over a billion queries an hour - the government relational system - in their huge data center - chokes on 500,000 queries a month.

We demonstrate this to qualified prospective users - and some of the doubters who say what we do is impossible - we show this to them, on Zoom calls, and they are stunned.

Back to the stone in one’s sandal.

It’s the tech community - or one of them on particular - who knows his stuff is obsolete - all tech is obsolete after 40 years - so they got a guy who builds towers with bricks and steel to pull their chestnuts out of the fire telling him the U.S. is falling behind China in A.I.

Well, for sure China isn’t dumb enough to build data centers with 1980s tech - to beat us.

These investors, however are - because they have obsolete technology that needs a financial infusion.

Trump is a messaging master, but neither he nor his pals at Oracle can overcome an idea whose time has come.

In technology there is the dreaded “O” word.

It is the single most powerful concept in technology and that word is not Oracle, it is “obsolete.”

In short, the I/O-bound relational model hit the scalability wall - and getting Trump, who knows zero about tech to get them out of this mess is a great call.

Unfortunately the concept of obsolete is something nobody can outrun - and it won’t be outrun here.

Our team takes Oracle applications that run for 92 clock hours in a fully committed $70 million data center - and rewrite them in Fractal in 45 days. In Fractal - without all the I/O - they run in 8 minutes on a $4,000 computer you can put in your lap.

We don’t do this once a year - we do this all the time. No data center. Ever.

We have billion dollar companies who do it - a small number because we are in controlled growth - but we never fail to deliver.

You heard the phrase “no force can stop an idea whose time has come.”

We thank President Trump for making “data centers across America - destroying farmland for A.I.” a thing.

Now let’s all go there and test the alternatives - maybe green computing is at hand.

Maybe delivering applications that reduce energy consumption to that of a table lamp from that of a small community is a winning idea.

Wanna bet?

You, the reader, now get the ringside seat watching how even the greatest president, in the greatest country, flanked by the greatest technologists - or perhaps the richest - cannot stop that idea.

Obsolete happens like Hemingway’s bankruptcy quote: :…gradually, then suddenly.”

We are not at gradually yet, but it is almost at hand as relational is choking on huge applications - Fractal is not.

Trump’s announcement moved it closer.

You will hear the scary phrase - “China is outpacing America in A.I.”

Maybe so, but we can tell you first-hand they are not doing so with relational database infrastructure.

China is doing it with distributed small language models, while Americans - stuck to large data centers - choke on large language models taking weeks to run.

China and Fractal are using small language models - not together - we are not helping those guys, in highly distributed systems, to deliver an A.I. payload far in excess of what current U.S. technology can deliver.

We know that because we had to build “sovereign level security” to stop Russian and Chinese governments, North Korea too, constantly trying to get into our internal systems.

We can demonstrate “Fractal sovereign level security” is now the most powerful security means available - because it has to be.

You may not take us up on that but our unmet pals in China and Eastern Europe are pretty impressed we thwart them every day.

Join us here on the FractalComputing.Substack.com site as you watch disruption in action - slow, gradual, then all at once.

We’re having a ball and we want you, the readers to enjoy some of this.

No data centers are needed. We prove it every day.

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