At the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit on Wednesday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, on stage with Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown, made a controversial argument: If the world wants to grow AI, we need data centers.
On the surface, this is logical. Data centers are a crucial piece of infrastructure that tech companies need to power their training of new AI models. But the first part of that “if-then” statement is questionable. These massive AI server farms are wildly unpopular, in large part because of serious environmental concerns, energy costs and resource guzzling.
Over the past few years, data center…
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