Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

From Better Offline by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

March 27, 2026 · 11 min

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Ed Zitron discusses the misleading claims of the AI industry regarding data centers and their construction status.

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI killing Sora, and how the majority of announced data centers are either barely getting built or vaporware, with only 3GW of IT load coming online in 2025 in America, and only 5GW of data centers under construction worldwide. This week’s free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ JustDario’s piece - The Data Center Frenzy Will Be Remembered As The Largest Waste Of Capital In History https://justdario.com/2025/10/the-data-centers-frenzy-will-be-remembered-as-the-largest-waste-of-capital-in-history/  (warning, my man has a lot of ads) Sora burns $15m a day (Forbes)  https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/10/openai-spending-ai-generated-sora-videos/ Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful!  YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. Buy our new “FUCK DATA CENTERS” shirts today! --- LINKS…

People in this episode

Host: Ed Zitron

Topics covered

  • AI industry
  • data centers
  • technology
  • capital waste
  • OpenAI
  • Sora

Keywords

  • AI
  • data centers
  • OpenAI
  • Sora
  • capital waste
  • technology

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Organizations: OpenAI, Forbes, JustDario, Cool Zone Media, iHeartPodcasts

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