The AI City Race Nobody's Watching

Описание: The Ai City Rcae Nobody's Watching
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Johor Bahru.

You have probably never heard of it. It is a city of one million people in
southern Malaysia, thirty kilometers from Singapore. Flat. Hot. For most of its
history, unremarkable.

Right now, it is building four point five times more data center capacity than it
currently has. Microsoft just made its largest investment in Malaysia's history
there. Two point two billion dollars.

Johor Bahru did not win this because it has the best AI talent. It won because
it has something Singapore is running out of. Space. Power. And a government that
said yes before anyone else did.

The Global AI City Index 2025 ranks the top five AI cities as Singapore, Seoul,
Beijing, Dubai, and San Francisco. Three of those five are not in the United
States or Europe. And the cities rising fastest below them are not the ones most
people are watching.

In this video we break down the infrastructure bet, how Rotterdam built for ships
that did not yet exist in 1952 and held the position of world's largest port for
forty years, and why the cities winning the AI race in 2026 are being decided by
something nobody expected: electricity.

The infrastructure bets being made right now will determine which cities matter
in 2046. Most people are not paying attention to this race at all.

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0:00 - Johor Bahru
0:55 - The Story Already Out Of Date
2:30 - The Cities Rising Fastest
3:45 - Rotterdam Built For Ships That Did Not Exist
5:30 - One Third Of US Data Centers In Three States
7:00 - The Energy Dimension Nobody Is Talking About
8:45 - The Cities Losing Because Of Electricity
10:15 - The Signal: Which Cities Are Breaking Ground
11:30 - The Next Layer