This is all very true, but creative people come up with solutions that alleviate the problem of high data usage. I am currently putting together a very inexpensive system capable of running Ollama and running open source AI models and serving them to other computers in our network. This will work even when our connection is down. Of course when connected it will be able serve over the internet as well.
AI is very scalable and does not have to be in the corporate image that most people imagine.
But this bandwidth load on Webhosts, websites, and the internet infrastructure is a very serious problem. I am absolutely sure they are trying to destroy the internet as we know it now and completely replace it with their AI services and information control. This is going to absolutely rape the hosting business and independent hosting and independent information sources.
Websites are dropping like flies because they just cannot handle the bandwidth load. And oddly enough there are no hosts helping their customers with filters to block this huge demand from AI constantly stealing data from their databases. The only tool available right now is CloudFlare. How convenient for CloudFlare right? The #1 content censoring tool in the industry...
When before we had just a couple dozen webcrawler bots to deal with, now we have millions maybe billions hitting our databases because now every individual can become a webcrawler using AI... It is unsustainable...