>> Data centers are being built because there's demand for them from people who want to use AI, like me

> No they aren't

You literally said they are building data centers to cater to demand later on in your own comment:

> If they weren't confident it would make them money it would not be built

There you go. Your own point debunked by your own words.

> They aren't benevolently trying to help you out

I didn't say anything about the owners building stuff out of charity or benevolence. Are you responding to the wrong comment? Yours is more-or-less irrelevant to mine in addition to being self-contradictory.

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bluefirebrand 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

Come on bud. You claimed

> The fact that it (building data centers) also happens to increase "shareholder value" is irrelevant

It's not irrelevant. It is the primary reason they are being built

Your understanding about the cause and effect around why data centers are being built is completely backwards

	▲	throw10920 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please own up to the fact that you self-contradicted yourself in your own comment by first claiming that "No they aren't" and then "If they weren't confident it would make them money it would not be built". > It's not irrelevant. It is the primary reason they are being built ...and without any implications, that fact is irrelevant. Do you understand what relevance means? It means that there's meaning, implication. You haven't given a single follow-on implication from that hypothesis that actually matters to the discussion. > Your understanding about the cause and effect around why data centers are being built is completely backwards No, this is just factually false. Fact: for datacenters, without market demand, without a buyer, shareholder value cannot possibly be generated. So, first there is a market, and then companies act on it to generate shareholder value. You're living in a world detached from reality where "shareholder value" exists as its own separate entity that can generate market demand. You need to take a high-school level economics course so that you don't make objectively incorrect statements like this.