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Mark Cuban: “A lot of data centers will be turned into pickleball courts.”

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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

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centers that are going to be turned into

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pickleball courts. What's happening now

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is the market leaders, Google, etc.,

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Meta, they're borrowing hundreds of

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billions of dollars.

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>> Yeah, that's interesting.

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>> And there's already a private credit

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problem right now. Just layer on private

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credit, and then you have these huge

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companies that have cash flow, but

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they're spending all their cash flow on

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CapEx, and then they're borrowing on top

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of that.

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>> That's the year bonds.

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>> Right, that's planning for perfection.

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And that's going to be hard, and we're

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building these data centers, and if

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there's a price performance curve on AI

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that minimizes the power requirements,

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there's going to be a lot of data

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centers that are going to be turned into

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pickleball courts.

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>> Interesting.

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>> Everybody thinks that there's going to

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be so much more utilization, and there

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will be. It'll just scale like everybody

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expects, but there's going to be

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technological breakthroughs as well.

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Just like we saw fiber back in the day,

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it was all about putting in fiber. Then

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it went from 1 GB fiber to 10 to 100 GB,

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and then there wasn't a fiber problem

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anymore.

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>> Yes,

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it was quite the opposite. We had dark

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fiber that people bought

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>> yeah.

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>> for pennies on the dollar.

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>> And just sitting there, right? And how

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is it not going to be the case that we

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don't get the same price performance

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improvements on the AI side and on the

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data center side?

Interactive Summary

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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