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Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI look forward to a world where we have 80 acres of housing rather than 80 acres of human hamster wheels.
- electric_mayhem 3y agoI look forward to a world where comments like yours get upvoted instead of downvoted. Insightfulness adds value, particularly when it happens to be humorous at the same time.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoHow many acres of housing would this have had? I honestly have no conception of how much space 4,000 people take up
- plorkyeran 3y agoThe average lot size for a single-family home in California is roughly 1/5 acre, so 80 acres would be somewhere around 400 homes. Probably more like 300 after accounting for streets and stuff. Three-story apartment building are around 25 units per acre.
- AtlasBarfed 3y ago1/10 of an acre is a perfectly good size for a home, especially if you build several stories and a basement. To say nothing of building 1+5 condos or even more dense highrise stuff. It will probably end up just being one of the two founding dweebs latest mansion/estate or squatted on for eventual sale.
- 7e 3y agoAdding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoWhich problem? Of humans that aren’t homeless?
- postalrat 3y agoIn the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap. Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
- asdfman123 3y agoWe should build more houses for, say, people working in the LA shipping industry in rural Minnesota. Miles of empty land!
- fnordpiglet 3y agoTrue. We should house the ER nurses for LA in Death Valley. The line cooks at the Jack N the Box down the street can live in the Olympic mountains and the garbage collectors in NYC in the bad lands of South Dakota. Good plan!
- postalrat 3y agoWhat's your plan? Wait for someone else lose a bunch of money for the greater good?
- fnordpiglet 3y agoBuild housing instead of office buildings.
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- andrewstuart 3y agoChatGPT ruins everything.
- lowlevel 3y ago.. everything that Google hasn't already ruined.
- vkdelta 3y agoWill this help to drop prices of homes in San Jose? I remember a lot of realtors selling the future of google
- hyuuu 3y agocurious about this too
- 1270018080 3y agoOnly increasing housing density will decrease housing prices substantially.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoSupply and demand. Without the expected demand of the San Jose Google campus, it's possible that prices drop without building anything.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoPopulation growth and decades of supply constraints say hi.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoSuggestion. Turn 80 acres into housing
- GloriousKoji 3y agoDowntown San Jose has been on an overall downward trend since the start of covid lock down.
- nlstitch 3y agoTBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads in Youtube. Not to mention them being behind on the AI battle or Cloud Computing.
- asdfman123 3y agoThe downturn affecting all of tech is a lot more salient than this narrative
- afavour 3y ago…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?
- chii 3y agoThe OP is assuming that funds being directed towards a campus is extraneous spending that could've been directed towards making products better instead.
- asdfman123 3y agoIf they knew anything about Google they’d understand how wrong that is. If any human organization to ever exist on the face of the earth has enough money, it is Google. The reason why their products increasingly can seem long in the tooth is that corporate work is a huge game of telephone, where messages from the top to the bottom and vice versa get horribly garbled. Add in a culture that rewards shipping features, but not necessarily good ones.
- rlanday 3y agoThis is hard to believe given the quality of most software, but at some point, one might expect a decline in product quality to harm revenue and profitability, which would reduce or eliminate the need for headcount growth.
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- readonthegoapp 3y agoTime for a real, no-cars neighborhood! I'll allow for LSVs.