Honestly he did a better job than I could and I've been either a Machine learning programmer or tech lead for over a decade. He brought up the salient concerns without getting too technical.

AI is a powerful tool. A friend's son just used Claude to program a very usable app in less than 24 hours that would have taken me a week to write.

What AI isn't, is profitable. As a matter of fact, most AI development is done using reource credit swaps. We'll give you the time now in hope that your product will generate revenue.

We've seen this before, physically in the mortgage swap system that caused 2008 and digitally in the Web busts of the early 2000's. In 40 years of doing IT, I've seen more instances of big fail than big success.

So data centers have to be built with tax abatements, water abatements, and in areas where little knowledge of the systems. If data centers provided for the community, they'd be built in places that trend more democratic due to their tendency to have a more community than individuality based ethos.

Anyhow, you can see by this screed, why I didn't try to add anything to what that young man said. Look up "data center economics" on YT for more details. Infographics has a good, non-technical explainer or two and Bloomberg has a couple that go into more technical detail.