Jeffrey Ladish predicts data centres could become targets in US–China AI race

What was said

"Data centers are pretty vulnerable. You can blow them up with missiles. If you don't have data centers, you don't get to recursive self-improvement."

Jeffrey Ladish predicts that if Beijing believed the US was close to recursively self-improving AI, it might consider extreme military options. He argues data centres are a physical chokepoint for advanced AI and could be vulnerable to kinetic attack, while stressing uncertainty about whether either side would risk war.