Subject: Re: Big Tech needs $1.5 trillion to fund the AI boom
Some links re: data center build out.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2...

To fast-track the buildout of data centers that power artificial intelligence, tech companies are predicted to spend $375 billion in 2025 — but more isn't always better, warn Virginia Tech artificial intelligence experts Walid Saad and Dimitri Nikolopoulos.

Data centers carry high environmental costs

https://www.goldmansachs.com/i...

data centers have become some of the most important infrastructure in the world.

corporations are breaking ground on new data centers from Texas to Shanghai, filling them with next-generation graphics-processing units (GPUs), and building high-voltage power connections to many terawatt-hours (TWh) of additional electricity generation.

Let’s not overbuild the number of data centers as the world has done with EV battery factories resulting in a malinvestment of EV battery factories.
https://insideevs.com/news/778...