I’m reminded (as I frequently am) of Vernor Vinge’s sci fi novels. In A Fire Upon the Deep, the main character comes to the realization that all civilizations collapse when the web of legal and supply chain dependencies collapses in on its own weight. As he is a sib-lightspeed traveler, he has to calculate the likelihood a civilization will still exist when he arrives.

AI data centers are a new, expensive, and (soon to be) highly integrated layer on top of our economy’s tirimasu of dependencies. Especially as new generations come and rely more fully on the machines than we are comfortable doing ourselves.

Right new if you destroy a data center you might destroy tax documents, calendars, sensitive user data, etc. 50 years from now destroying an AI center could mean no one can fly a plane or produce legal arguments anymore. So much of our productivity will be tied into these datacenters and our new skill sets will be entangled in their operation.

Not good, not bad, just different.