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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Oh, they totally will. It'll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we'll go through the third or fourth round of this.
Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial bakeries.