Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Data Center Fight Is ‘Proxy For Hate’ Toward AI And

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be built on chips and code, but Mark Cuban believes its future could hinge on something much less technical: whether ordinary people decide they want it in their backyard.

In a post on X on June 25, the billionaire entrepreneur argued that growing opposition to data centers is no longer just about giant buildings or power demand. Instead, he said, they have become symbols of broader anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence.

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"It's time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers," Cuban wrote. "They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it's creating."

Cuban argued that the companies behind today's largest large language models

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/billionaire-mark-cuban-says-data-140002990.html)