If AI is an existential risk, why spend trillions on data centers?
PAstynome · x · 2026-09-11
The author poses a rhetorical challenge: if AI truly posed an existential risk, why are AI companies spending trillions of dollars on data centers? A pointed observation on the contradiction between risk rhetoric and capital expenditure.
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