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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 30 years, these things will be today’s malls. Rotting, abandoned, desolate as small and more efficient technology eats their lunch. [/quote]

I’m actually doubtful if that this will happen for multiple reasons. 
1) We are approaching fundamental limits of Moores law. IBM is already making transistors that are only five atoms in size and you can’t have a transistor that is smaller than one atom. 
2) Demand for processing power and data storage is very elastic. When it becomes cheaper people use significantly more of it.
3) AI is supercharging demand for processing power and data storage. The most promising uses for AI are extremely computationally intensive. Eg. genomic  analysis and risk prediction for diseases.
Unfortunately, demand for data center space will continue to increase exponentially for the foreseeable future. [/quote]
That’s a lot of effort to truly misunderstand the what you’re talking about. Old data centers are not easily retrofitted to meet power demands of new chips. As a result, it’s cheaper and easier to build new data centers. As a result, it’s not clear what is going to happen to these older data centers once they become obsolete. Will someone operate them for lower power demand computational needs? Will they just reach their end of life and be torn down or repurposed? [/quote]

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