On Thursday afternoon, Mark Cuban posted what amounted to an unsolicited intervention for the AI industry. “It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers,” the billionaire investor wrote on X, in a post that drew more than 700,000 views within hours. “They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.”
By the time Cuban hit send, two economists had already made the same argument—in more rigorous, and in some ways more damning, terms.
