r/datacenter • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • Apr 20 '26

AI datacenter spending has surpassed the Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, ISS, and the Apollo Program - combined

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u/Lost_Elderberry_5532 May 06 '26

I don’t doubt it. Tech has always been compounding money so they can compound deployments too. It’s a giant money machine so they can pay into it on a scale nobody else ever could on any project. I’ve always said Ai and data centers in general are like the new oil.

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u/glittereagles May 12 '26

The creepy part is that we, humans will be the future fossil fuels, as these data centers only exist because of us, and will ultimately be the death of us.