Expert warns AI data centre race may backfire, says 'Wake up, the emperor has no clothes'

Cloud computing expert David Linthicum warned Big Tech's AI data centre race may backfire, and recalled the dot-com bubble. Noting IBM CEO's '100GW centre costing $8 trillion and needing $800 billion profit to pay yearly interest' calculation, he said, "The math doesn't work." "[They're] betting everything on demand that simply doesn't exist...Wake up. The emperor has no clothes," he added.