DCF Poll: AI Infrastructure - Bubble, Supercycle, or Plateau?

Hyperscalers are building faster than ever. The question now: How long can the AI infrastructure boom run?
Nov. 11, 2025

The data center industry is finishing 2025 at full throttle: hyperscalers racing to secure gigawatts of power, developers breaking ground on billion-dollar campuses, and vendors sold out on liquid cooled hardware through mid-2026.

Yet beneath the record spend, a debate is taking shape: are we in the early innings of a decades-long AI supercycle, or approaching the top of an unsustainable build curve?

In this month's industry poll, Data Center Frontier asks where you see the inflection point.

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Matt Vincent

A B2B technology journalist and editor with more than two decades of experience, Matt Vincent is Editor in Chief of Data Center Frontier.

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