How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers

This is the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web. Just as companies completely rebuilt their computer systems to accommodate the new commercial internet in the 1990s, they are now rebuilding from the bottom up — from tiny components to the way that computers are housed and powered — to accommodate artificial intelligence.

Big tech companies have constructed computer data centers all over the world for two decades. The centers have been…