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I build AI data centers. I want them to disappear from view.
Sean James, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia with extensive experience designing and building data centers at Microsoft, argues that modern AI data centers should become 'unremarkable' infrastructure, fading into the background like water mains or substations. He notes that current focus on data centers highlights their energy and water demands, contrasting sharply with past times when such engineering marvels remained invisible.
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