The current explosion in data centre expansion closely aligns with the explosion in AI services. So yes I agree that there must be a connection. Two years ago 8 billion people we were doing banking, using cloud computing services, streaming movies, storing 10000 work emails each, and all the behind the scenes industry needs, and that did not not need anywhere near the amount of data centres we do today. The AIs are very very hungry.

Nono, i mean they literally think that datacentres only exist for LLM use.

Speaking as someone who's spent most of her professional career in telecommunication datacentres...

...no

Edit: basically people with little to no technical knowledge are conflating DCs and llms the same way they have pattern recognition AI and llms. Which is gonna be pretty fucking dangerous if some idiot gets it into their head to torch a colo that supports the local imaging hospital