The global race to build AI infrastructure has triggered what looks, on the surface, like a data-center supercycle. New projects are announced weekly. Capacity targets grow larger by the month. Megawatts are promised freely and confidently. Yet beneath the headlines, a more uncomfortable reality is emerging: many of these facilities are not real data centers at all. As Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, who was recently acquired by NVIDA for $20BIL, bluntly put it in a recent inter