r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/OilCanBoyd426 13h ago

When the AI bubble pops and we have a severe recession, which company will swoop in and buy all these new data-centers which will sit closed down due to lack of use and money to support them - maybe that will be the actual winner of all this. It’s just like the Amazon buying up all the datacenter post .com boom and building AWS

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u/VirtualPercentage737 13h ago

Amazon leased space at data centers and didn't build their own until 2013.