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Start free trial →Big Technology · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Alex and Ranjan had just agreed that data centers are ugly and unpopular after the midterm backlash. Alex offered a half-joking fix: use the chips' waste heat for community wellness facilities.
Anyone with a stake in data centers being AI data centers being built? How about that? Okay. So I would include the Neo Clouds, but we know who really is, you know, who drives the narrative here. It's the OpenAI is the Anthropics. It's Jensen. It's Mark Zuckerberg. I
…anyone thought over the last couple of years. I don't think you're just going to walk back from that that easily. Do you think the suddenly friendly Sam touring America going to farms and stuff like that and doing one of those tours they used to do back in the 90s? Do you think he might do that?
It's hard. I mean, because data centers are ugly. Ultimately, right? You could put a mural on them. They don't grace the landscape the same way farmland does. So it's going to be tough.
Wait, did you hear there's, I think it was in France somewhere, like a beautiful data center that they tried building and like tried to like, and there's still a lot of community backlash on it.
You know, it's happened in different places. I think, okay, you know, speaking of manifesting, I think the AI industry should follow this hot take that I've had for a while and doesn't seem to be picking up any steam. No pun intended, because what I'm about to say involves that. I think that the AI…
All right. So one thing I will note: this French data center, I just looked it up. It was TVPN had shared it, but it was a prank and not real. So we'll already retract that one about anything in France and beautiful data centers. But in terms of Alex's beautiful data centers spa combination, it is…