[doctorwho42]

So instead, we are building data centers for capacity we aren't sure exists...

Data centers that are orders of magnitude more resource intensive than anything than came before. Hell there is one planned for Utah that I saw would consume 2x the power of the states current usage, which would there by triple a single states power usage overnight.

Tell me how that is somehow more efficient?

[9dev]

It's not. But the choice isn't "use cloud AI from a data center" vs. "do not use AI." Way too much money has been sunk into the technology, and it is far too seductive to ignore, so AI is here to stay.

So the question is rather what the most efficient way to serve AI is - locally or from the cloud, so: data centres.