Satire: companies borrow a 'quadrillion' to build 420 data centers in 6 months
asymco · x · 2026-11-03
asymco retweets TCKJRubano's viral satire on the AI capex frenzy: in 2026 nearly every company simultaneously announced borrowing a 'quadrillion dollars' to build 420 data centers in six months — with chips they didn't have, powered by electricity from turbines that weren't built, over transmission lines that don't exist — while everyone nodded along. A pointed jab at how AI infrastructure spending has decoupled from power and supply-chain reality.
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