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Title: Data Center Boom May End Up Being 'Irrational,' Investor Warns

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/1472...

A prominent venture capitalist has warned that the technology industry's
massive buildout of AI data centers risks becoming "irrational" and could end
in disaster, particularly as companies pursue small nuclear reactors to power
the facilities. Josh Wolfe, co-founder and partner at Lux Capital, compared
the current infrastructure expansion to previous market bubbles in fiber-
optic networking and cloud computing. While individual actions by hyperscale
companies to build data center infrastructure remain rational, Wolfe said the
collective effort "becomes irrational" and "will not necessarily persist."
The warning comes as Big Tech companies pour tens of billions into data
centers and energy sources, with Meta announcing just this week a deal to
purchase power from an operating nuclear station in Illinois that was
scheduled to retire in 2027. Wolfe said he is worried that speculative
capital is flowing into small modular reactors based on presumed energy
demands from data centers. "I think that that whole thing is going to end in
disaster, mostly because as cliched as it is, history doesn't repeat. It
rhymes," he said.

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