Flexential CEO Chris Downie outlined a new playbook for data center operators, amid unprecedented demand, investment and chokepoints

RESTON, Virginia—The wake-up call for Flexential CEO Chris Downie started innocently enough: He sent a picture of himself meeting former Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko to a friend, in which both he and Klitschko were smiling and good-naturedly flexing for the camera. Within 15 minutes, the friend sent back a brief video, seemingly of that same moment: The men grinned, flexed — then turned to each other, squared off and began sparring.

The sparring never happened. The video was AI-generated from Downie’s picture. But for Downie, the surreal experience of realizing that AI could turn his image into anything, create moments that looke

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