# AI data centers could be obsolete by 2030 | Eli the Computer Guy

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Podcast: [The Tech Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-report-7700174)
Published: 2026-06-29T18:20:00+00:00
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“We are building data centres as if we understand what we’re doing, when I really don’t think we do.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick Nvidia’s new closed loop water-cooling technology that promises to ‘eliminate’ water consumption of data centres and how the speed of the AI built out risks wasting money on obsolete infrastructure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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