You can even hear it in the video, link added…

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    2 months ago

    Not all data centers are for AI. Practically anything you do on the internet lives or transits through a data center. A very serious answer to your question is simply “the internet”. AI data centers are just bigger and more dense than the ones that have been around for a long time.

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      2 months ago

      But the reason most new datacenters are build is AI. AI is the cause that the number of datacenters are spiking, not any other poor excuse.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, but until AI, there weren’t nearly as many data centers and they were much smaller. Now massive data centers are going up all over the country, and no, hosting the internet is not their primary purpose

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      2 months ago

      yeah I’m pretty sure the long game is only half AI. AI is the sales pitch. Taking over the internet and home computing is the long game.