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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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if someone comes up with an alternative way to use a bunch of that infrastructure to make money, I bet they could get a lot of business when the AI bubble pops and suddenly these datacenters are desperate to find a use for themselves
After .com popped, all the money ran to install fiber data infrastructure - a lot of installs put in more capacity than they projected using for 100 years (glass fibers are cheap, digging trenches for them is expensive). The promise of "fiber to the home" is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of "dark fiber" ready to carry data... someday.
Really? The US is really unsophisticated in certain key areas that you wouldn't expect.
They are starting to roll it out in fits and starts in the major metro areas at least, but yeah, 20 years late and nowhere near as universally as promised when our service providers took all those government grants and then didn't deliver, IMO.