# God Save Us



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A presenter compares AI spending with historical megaprojects.



## Timestamped description



[00:00–00:03] A split-screen display shows a man with a banana-shaped head wearing a suit talking amid heavy digital distortion, color inversion, and glitch effects, with captions appearing on screen.

[00:03–00:08] The banana-headed figure continues speaking with digital artifacts and shifting colored backdrops comparing expenditures to the US Interstate Highway System.

[00:08–00:12] Glitchy transitions alternate between inverted and mosaic-textured versions of the banana-headed man as he mentions the Apollo moon program.

[00:12–00:15] Distorted and mirrored visuals of the character speak about the International Space Station against glowing digital backgrounds.

[00:15–00:20] Split screen showing a man with a banana head in a suit with negative color inversions and captions flashing, with an overlapping echoed voiceover.

[00:20–00:25] The banana-headed character undergoes visual glitching, pixel sorting, and energy aura effects while statistics about military spending appear as text.

[00:25–00:30] Surreal digital effects and glowing gridlines envelope the character as he breaks down spending rates per day and hour.

[00:30–00:32] A split screen displays a man with a banana-shaped head wearing a business suit against a glowing backdrop, transitioning into inverted blue tones as subtitles display: '$1.2 million a minute This alone without'.

[00:32–00:35] The figure speaks while visual distortion, pixelation, and glitch effects sweep across the split frames, with on-screen text showing: 'the biggest project of capitalism We are spending'.

[00:35–00:38] Color transitions switch between vibrant neon overlays and inverted white-and-blue palettes as the speaker concludes the statement, with subtitles reading: 'this one year year'.



## Speech transcript



[00:00–00:02] Speaker: 660 billion dollars

[00:02–00:04] Speaker: a year on AI datacenters. To put

[00:04–00:06] Speaker: that number into perspective, this is more than what was spent on the

[00:06–00:08] Speaker: US Interstate Highway System, 630

[00:08–00:10] Speaker: billion. More than what was spent on the Apollo Moon program,

[00:10–00:13] Speaker: 257 billion. More than what was

[00:13–00:15] Speaker: spent on the International Space Station,

[00:15–00:17] Narrator: [inaudible] This is more money

[00:17–00:19] Narrator: than Walmart made all last year, 648 billion dollars.

[00:19–00:22] Narrator: It's about 25% of all military spending globally,

[00:22–00:26] Narrator: equivalent to buying 50 Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

[00:26–00:28] Narrator: It's equivalent to spending 1.8 billion dollars a day,

[00:28–00:30] Narrator: 75 million dollars an hour, one

[00:30–00:31] Speaker: 1.2 million a minute.

[00:31–00:32] Speaker: This year alone, without a doubt,

[00:32–00:34] Speaker: the biggest project in the history of capitalism.

[00:34–00:36] Speaker: We are spending all that in one year.

[00:36–00:38] Speaker: In one year. That's one...



## Uncertainties



Audio contains heavy echo and pitch layering which occasionally obscures speech clarity.



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