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AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?


· May 2026 For the past few decades, building a datacenter has been a well-understood, predictable exercise in utility engineering. You provisioned compute servers, attached storage arrays, and built a network to stitch them together.

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