{"id":985128,"date":"2026-01-13T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985128"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:02:59","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-on-why-all-the-companies-building-datacentres-are-wrong-it-is-much-better-to-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-on-why-all-the-companies-building-datacentres-are-wrong-it-is-much-better-to-just\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on why all the companies building datacentres are &#8216;wrong&#8217;: It is much better to just\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos thinks the current rush to build private data centers for AI is a massive waste of resources\u2014and he&#8217;s drawing parallels to a 110-year-old mistake. Speaking at the 2026 New York Times DealBook Summit, the Amazon founder argued that companies like Meta and OpenAI constructing their own massive computing facilities mirror early 20th-century factories that generated their own electricity before power grids existed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, everybody is building their own data center, their own generators essentially. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos thinks the current rush to build private data centers for AI is a massive waste of resources\u2014and he&#8217;s drawing parallels to a 110-year-old mistake. Speaking at the 2026 New York Times DealBook Summit, the Amazon founder argued that companies like Meta and OpenAI constructing their own massive computing facilities mirror early 20th-century factories that generated their own electricity before power grids existed. &#8220;Right now, everybody is building their own data center, their own generators essentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}