[AngryData]

Pretty sure hackernews doesn't take a giant datacenter to run. Its a text-only website managed by nerds. If HN didn't care about redundancy they could probably host it out of somebody's basement.

[cobbzilla]

And there are zero data centers in between facilitating anything?

[20after4]

The data centers that already exist are one thing, creating a lot of new ones isn't necessary simply to continue supporting hacker news traffic.

These new data centers are entirely a speculative buildout of new capacity to support theoretical (and some existing) demand for AI compute.