Billionaire PC tycoon Michael Dell is riding the AI gold rush—and he says the party’s far from over even if eventually ‘there’ll be too many’ data centers

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Michael Dell, who revolutionized the personal computer industry with Dell Technologies in the late ‘90s and is now the 10th richest person in the world, offered his take on the AI wave his company is helping enable, and why he thinks the data center building peak is not yet here.

Dell Technologies’ stock has skyrocketed 32% in the past year alone thanks to the increasing importance of the infrastructure services it provides to customers like OpenAI. While some analysts and tech leaders have claimed the AI industry is in a bubble, Dell said the boom is still going strong because of AI companies’ insatiable appetite for computing power.