The Hidden Risk To AI Profitability (And How To Fix It) DATA CENTER MAINTENANCE COSTS: THE HIDDEN RISK TO AI PROFITABILITY (AND HOW TO FIX IT) The greatest threat to profitability in the AI business today isn't model performance. It's infrastructure cost. Hyperscalers have already built up a mountain of capital costs for data center construction that depreciates rapidly. But now, maintenance of AI data centers is a pressure point that they can no longer afford to overlook. That's because as the use of gener ...