Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold

[nlstitch]

TBH 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]

The downturn affecting all of tech is a lot more salient than this narrative

[afavour]

…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?

[itsoktocry]

>Google Home is as stupid or worse

Now that "modern AI" is mainstream culture, the (lack of) capability of Google Home is astounding. It's 50/50 whether it can get even basic commands correct.

[vkdelta]

Will this help to drop prices of homes in San Jose? I remember a lot of realtors selling the future of google

[GloriousKoji]

Downtown San Jose has been on an overall downward trend since the start of covid lock down.

[hindsightbias]

data points to no:

https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/4th-look-at-local-hous...

prices may not rise but there’s no inventory.

[1270018080]

Only increasing housing density will decrease housing prices substantially.

[hyuuu]

curious about this too

[fnordpiglet]

I look forward to a world where we have 80 acres of housing rather than 80 acres of human hamster wheels.

[Rebelgecko]

How many acres of housing would this have had? I honestly have no conception of how much space 4,000 people take up

[electric_mayhem]

I 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.

[7e]

Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.

[readonthegoapp]

Time for a real, no-cars neighborhood!

I'll allow for LSVs.

[andrewstuart]

ChatGPT ruins everything.

[lowlevel]

.. everything that Google hasn't already ruined.