Billionaire Mark Cuban Asks If AI ‘Collapses’ And Data Centers Turn Into ‘Chuck

Today's artificial intelligence race is fueled by one assumption: demand will keep climbing.

Mark Cuban just spent a day asking what happens if it doesn't.

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On June 26, the billionaire entrepreneur returned to X with a follow-up to his previous day's warning that the backlash against data centers had become a backlash against AI itself. Rather than doubling down on that argument, he explored the opposite scenario: What if the critics are right? What if AI demand falls, data centers sit empty and the industry's massive spending spree backfires?

Instead of predicting disaster, Cuban turned it into a thought experiment.

"If demand collapses and most of the data centers are turned into Chuck E. Cheeses or whatever," he wrote, "wouldn't that soon create a revival of jobs as entrepreneurs step up to fill the void and cr

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/billionaire-mark-cuban-asks-ai-140002389.html)