The AI data center boom is moving closer to cities — and this Texas developer just raised $2 billion to bet on it
THE SO WHAT
Inference is dragging 10–50 MW blocks of AI compute into metro areas — latency and data gravity are beating cheap land. If you're building AI products, your edge is now colo selection and network topology, not just which model you call.
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