Why Mark Cuban says many AI data centers could wind up as 'pickleball courts'

Mark Cuban warns that massive data centre investments by Meta and Alphabet could become redundant if AI efficiency improvements accelerate, comparing the buildout to the fibre network boom that eventually solved the bandwidth problem. He predicts stranded capacity will be repurposed, though he expects the AI downturn to be less systemic than the dot-com bubble.

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