AI data centers

also referred to as: ai datacenters

11 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2025 by Brian McCullough · across every show →

Everything said about AI data centers, oldest first

Mar 29, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
McCullough: Roughly 80 percent of China's AI data centers sit unused
“And there was an article that I did this week about how in China something like 80% of the build out of their data centers for AI is, is currently unused.”
Brian McCullough Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 25:43 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Apr 23, 2025 bullish
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Patel: $10B AI data centers aim to automate software engineering, not chatbots
“No one is trying to make with these, you know, with these ten billion dollar data centers, they're not trying to make chat models, right? They're not trying to make models that people chat with, just to be clear, right? They're trying to solve things like soft…”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 34:22 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Oct 1, 2025 neutral
Insight
Guthrie: Training-only datacenters cannot serve inference without global networking
“If you are, for example, building one large data center that only does training and it's not connected to a wide area network around the world, that's close to the users, it's hard to use that same infrastructure For inferencing because you can't go faster tha…”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 30:00 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
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Luria: Falling GPU rental prices could trigger systemic AI debt defaults
“If we are here two years from now and there's hundreds of billions of dollars of debt, And the demand for AI stabilizes, or we built enough data centers to support the demand we have at that point in time, and the price for leasing pieces of AI for renting acc…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 12:38 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Jan 7, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Venturo: Construction labor, not power, is currently limiting AI data center builds
“And right now I don't think that power itself, meaning grid connections and the generation capacity is the limiting factor. Right now it's the construction and trades. So it's human labor and supply chain that are the limiting factor is that you went from a ma…”
Brian Venturo Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 56:04 Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo
Jan 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amon: Energy will be a scarce resource for inference data centers
“If you just look at today, you have this very aggressive ramp of growth of AI, and you don't have the same ramp on energy. You know, there's a gap between the available energy and AI. So I think energy is going to be a scarce resource also to operate an infere…”
Cristiano Amon Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 35:26 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
Mar 26, 2026 bullish
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Warner: AI infrastructure cannot be powered without small modular nuclear
“So I'm a big advocate that we'll never be able to power this without a small modular nuclear or other kind of a decentralized and power generation.”
Senator Mark Warner Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 18:50 Senator Mark Warner: Nobody’s Ready for What AI Could Do To Us
May 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Gallup Poll Finds 70% of Americans Oppose Data Centers
“Recent Gallup poll said seven out of 10 Americans don't want them.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 27, 2026 ▶ 29:05 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
Jul 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gardizy: Around 50% of AI data center projects will miss completion deadlines
“But on on projects that are actually getting built, I do think, you know, 50% not really getting done on time is is, you know, what I would expect.”
Anissa Gardizy Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 1:00 Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
Aug 3, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Beck: Cooler AI chips will prevail over warm-water cooling approaches
“I think that the cooler chips are going to prevail.”
Christophe Beck Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 26:41 How Much Water AI Data Centers Actually Use. And What Can Be Done About It. — With Christophe Beck
Aug 12, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kedrosky: AI Token Prices Fall 70-80% YoY on Constant Performance
“And these tokens are among the most rapidly depreciating assets we've ever seen in a modern economy, that they've continually been falling 70 to 80% year over year on a constant performance basis for at least the last four years.”
Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 13:13 Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
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