Additional considerations:
How much of the power consumption is used by the chips and how much is used by the cooling system to cool the chips?
Technology is rapidly changing.
Will new technology make 2026 data centers obsolete in 2028?
Will new technology develop new ways to process more data more efficiently with less energy?
Will SpaceX placing data centers in space make data centers on earth obsolete?
The data centers stores massive amounts of data that is not normalized and filtered. Back when hardware was had less capacity, data was normalized, and filtered to remove the redundancy and low priority data. Will we go back to that efficiency?
If the US doesn’t build data centers, will friendly Western Bloc nations allow them for US usage...with shift of much IT work out of the US to be closer to the data?
Will China, Iran, etal build more/bigger/better data centers and dominate the futre?
Currently, China is spending less than a 20th of what we are spending on AI development and data centers. Their true strength is copying what we do and reproducing it cheaper. This is not actually a strategy for getting ahead of us, only barely keeping up.
Even the most successful of the bunch Aai is still losing over a $Billion a month with no coherent and realistic long term business model for ever turning a profit. Their valuation is strictly based on wishful thinking and a very successful campaign of misinformation.
Sorry typo... Xai
Most data centers will be essentially obsolete before they are completed. As newer technologies such as recent unified memory advances become available for local use, the demand for huge, centralized AI data centers will decrease.
I already use hybrid systems to decrease the need for expensive services. Here is a video that explains one hybrid use that works even on the limited hardware that I own...
Ollama + Claude Code = 99% CHEAPER, https://youtu.be/O2k_qwZA8HU.
Here is a summary in case you do not want to watch the video: https://gemini.google.com/share/37a0e4411075