If the AI bubble bursts, it won’ t be because of demand – it will be because we failed to build the infrastructure
Matt Hawkins, CEO and founder, CUDOCompute, says the future of AI depends less on hype and more on whether countries can build the power, land and compute infrastructure needed to support long-term demand.
I have been building and operating data centre infrastructure for more than 20 years. I have seen cycles come and go and I remember the early days of cloud, when people said no serious business would ever trust someone else’ s servers.
I remember the crypto rush, the overbuild and the correction that followed. Through all of it, one thing stayed constant – the physical layer has always mattered more than the headlines. Land, power and compute are fundamental. So, when I read that the AI bubble might be bursting, a story dominating the headlines right now, I do not panic. Because if you strip away the hype and the stock charts, you find something much simpler. AI is already embedded in the plumbing of modern business; it is not going away. It is in fraud detection, logistics routing, drug discovery, customer service triage and supply chain forecasting. Companies are not running pilots for fun; they are running production workloads that sit behind revenue and risk decisions. That compute demand does not vanish because sentiment shifts.
What worries me is not a cooling market or another hype cycle faltering, it is our failure to build the infrastructure to support what is already happening. www. intelligentcio. com
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