Why AI infrastructure planning must happen now
THE SO WHAT
The argument for early, balanced, open AI infrastructure is really about avoiding three-year technical debt — proprietary traps, bandwidth ceilings, and GPU bottlenecks. This week, map where your data, models, and orchestration actually live and which vendors control each layer before you greenlight the next AI initiative.
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