If cyberspace were Earth, the biggest AI datacenter would exceed the EU
LeviTurk · x · 2026-10-17
Levi Turk maps compute scale onto real estate: if cyberspace were as big as Earth, the largest AI datacenter would cover more land than the entire EU.
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