These invisible factors are limiting the future of AI

AI is no longer just a cascade of algorithms trained on massive amounts of data. It has become a physical and infrastructural phenomenon, one whose future will be determined not by breakthroughs in benchmarks, but by the hard realities of power, geography, regulation, and the very nature of intelligence. Businesses that fail to see this will be blindsided. 

Data centers were once the sterile backrooms of the internet: important, but invisible. Today, they are the beating heart of generative AI...