It doesn't make any difference. And the money in there doesn't cover real data centers at the scale US AI companies say they need handouts for anyway. Coals to Newcastle.

Remember also that Starlink was explicitly excluded from the pot of money until recently which happened right at the twitter takeover and the Elmo cancel club heights, even though that may offer a cheaper solution for extremely remote areas... Just like if you wanna go into the Amazon or Sahara you may want to have a sat phone.

This just feels like its re-cronyfication of the same money but this time implicitly earmarking it for the other team's buddies.