There is a book called La Casa Del Scorpio, that is essentially about a narco billionaire and its reminiscent of this

They think that Moores law will make the tech so efficient in such a short time that it won’t matter. This is because they don’t understand that Moores law is effectively dead and stopped being a true thing less than 10 years.

I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways