Data center buildout follows AI's turn toward agents

Wired reports that Silicon Valley is moving away from chatbot queries toward agentic AI—systems that perform multi-step tasks rather than answering a single prompt. The report says this shift is driving data center buildout, because agentic workloads consume more power per request. It gives no numbers: no increase in electricity demand, no capital expenditure, no named projects or deadlines. The article frames the change as a directional one, not a product release or a measurement. It affects anyone supplying or buying compute, but the scale is not explicitly quantified.