# Entrepreneurial America Needs a Right to Compute by Dave Blundin > "If you want a thriving entrepreneurial America, you have to have some kind of a right to compute. ... You can't innovate if you don't have access to compute, and the compute is completely sold out to five or seven big companies. That's not a really comfortable America. It's almost like the Rockefeller era again." > **— Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research - Moonshots|Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research — Moonshots]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 01:18:27–01:19:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=4707s). - **Editorial form:** The readable quotation retains visible brackets and/or an ellipsis for source-supported clarification or omission. The candidate map below records the exact treatment. - **Context and treatment:** Dave Blundin names American entrepreneurs as the affected group, concentrated access to compute as the constraint, and innovation and market competition as the stakes; [recording, 01:18:27–01:19:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=4707s). Direct continuous turn; the ellipsis omits the aside that government has not yet addressed the issue. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028|The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/AI Infrastructure|AI Infrastructure]] - [[wiki/Moonshots 309|Moonshots 309]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "If you want a thriving entrepreneurial America, you have to have some kind of a right to compute. ... You can't innovate if you don't have access to compute, and the compute is completely sold out to five or seven big companies. That's not a really comfortable America. It's almost like the Rockefeller era again." — Dave Blundin, Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-entrepreneurial-america-needs-a-right-to-compute ```