Why AI progress hitting the brakes is more likely than world domination

There’s a looming global computing capacity crunch that cannot be sustainably addressed the way we’re doing things right now.  Simply put, between artificial intelligence (AI) models growing exponentially and an ongoing global digital transformation, data centres are running out of space. Their vacancy rates are hitting record-lows and prices are rising in response to demand, which is cause for much unease among tech leaders.   If this trend continues, at some point, we will reach a juncture where we can no longer accomplish all the things that technology theoretically allows us to do, because our capacity to process data will be…

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