Home · Essays · Don’t make long bets on AI Data Centers
Wednesday
March 4
words2,404
read10 min
moon🌔 Waxing Gibbous
Essays

Don’t make long bets on AI Data Centers

BalticServers data center
Kevin The Editor · March 4, 2026 · Essays

Computing technology’s history is full of big, hulking machines. The first computers were filled large warehouses and didn’t have traditional processing units, but specialized hand-wired cards that linked together to calculate large numbers and sort information from large data sets. Great for NASA and big corporations in the 1960s like General Motors and the like,…

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

View Membership Levels

Already a member? Log in here
AI Anthropic bet bets computer computing creators data center Data Centers desktop computer digital dot com economic economy engineering General Motors gold rush history investment investors mainframe Microsoft miniaturization NASA NVIDIA OpenAI PDA personal computer Samsung Server servers smartphones TSMC
Entry #293 in the journal
Next entry →
Forty One
→
Read the whole journal.
Essays, fiction, opinion, observations — whenever they're ready. No schedule. No noise. From $3.99/month.
Subscribe Now
Part of the Today Network · Polk Today
Kevin the Editor
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.