More and more mainstream analysts are identifying the coming AI crash, which is a good indication that it will happen soon.
So, what happens to all the data centers? They are already built but probably very expensive to maintain. Will many of them just be abandoned? Bought up by cloud computing companies? Scammers? Crypto miners? Can they be parted out and sold off piecemeal?
Will they be put to some productive use, or just become massive e-waste sites left to the locals to deal with?
Is that counting traditional data enters which have basically been around for almost two decades? Or is this specifically AI data centers which have different hardware and environmental requirements?
More like 4 or 5 decades.
They originated with telephony switching centers.
Well yeah, I was thinking “cloud”, IaaS, AWS-style data centers. But of course, dedicated on-site or customer owned infrastructure existed much earlier as you say.
It’s only AI, here is the source they linked: https://americanedgeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Americas-AI-Surge-Powering-Growth-in-Every-State.pdf
It never indicates these are only AI datacenters.
Idk. Even if it’s half the number, which I doubt that it’s that low, it’s still way too fucking many. Also, aren’t AI datacenters more power hungry and huge monstrosities compared to the other ones?
Idk, read your own sources.