Mark Cuban: “A lot of data centers will be turned into pickleball courts.”
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There's going to be a lot of data
centers that are going to be turned into
pickleball courts. What's happening now
is the market leaders, Google, etc.,
Meta, they're borrowing hundreds of
billions of dollars.
>> Yeah, that's interesting.
>> And there's already a private credit
problem right now. Just layer on private
credit, and then you have these huge
companies that have cash flow, but
they're spending all their cash flow on
CapEx, and then they're borrowing on top
of that.
>> That's the year bonds.
>> Right, that's planning for perfection.
And that's going to be hard, and we're
building these data centers, and if
there's a price performance curve on AI
that minimizes the power requirements,
there's going to be a lot of data
centers that are going to be turned into
pickleball courts.
>> Interesting.
>> Everybody thinks that there's going to
be so much more utilization, and there
will be. It'll just scale like everybody
expects, but there's going to be
technological breakthroughs as well.
Just like we saw fiber back in the day,
it was all about putting in fiber. Then
it went from 1 GB fiber to 10 to 100 GB,
and then there wasn't a fiber problem
anymore.
>> Yes,
it was quite the opposite. We had dark
fiber that people bought
>> yeah.
>> for pennies on the dollar.
>> And just sitting there, right? And how
is it not going to be the case that we
don't get the same price performance
improvements on the AI side and on the
data center side?
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The video discusses the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and data centers, cautioning that current massive investments might lead to overcapacity. The speakers draw parallels to the historical 'fiber optic boom,' suggesting that technological breakthroughs could significantly improve AI price-performance, potentially rendering current data centers obsolete in the future.
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