{"id":680091,"date":"2026-05-19T04:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680091\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:54:20","slug":"data-centre-investment-boom-could-end-like-dot-com-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680091\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centre investment boom could end like dot.com bubble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best lies that Silicon Valley ever sold us \u2013 and there\u2019s a long list to choose from \u2013 is \u201cthe cloud\u201d. Much of our compute happens up in \u201cthe cloud\u201d. It sounds somewhere ephemeral. Not even part of the land. It\u2019s a marvellous, magical and mendacious trick.<\/p>\n<p>For we are now discovering that there is a very real cost to the cloud. Between now and 2030, companies worldwide are expected to invest nearly $7 trillion in building and upgrading data centres. Your compute happens in anonymous industrial buildings on the edge of town that house vast data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best lies that Silicon Valley ever sold us \u2013 and there\u2019s a long list to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-680091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}