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With promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks, server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics. Are they a boon for communities, or a burden?| & the West
Some worry costs will always be too high for profits. In a blog post on his company’s website, Harris Kupperman, a self-described boomer investor and the founder of the hedge fund Praetorian Capital, laid out his bearish case on A.I. infrastructure. Because the building needs upkeep and the chips and other technology will continually evolve, he argued that data centers will depreciate faster than they can generate revenue.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog