AI economy is running out of cheap compute as data-center and power costs surge
Scobleizer · x · 2026-07-22
A newsletter argues that the AI economy is running out of cheap compute.
Its main thesis is that the real battleground is shifting away from model wars and toward data centers, GPUs, electricity, and compute supply. As infrastructure costs rise, owning the hardware behind AI may matter more than the software layer.
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