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What's left when a tech boom goes bust?

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

On a busy street in Menlo Park, California, around the corner from the coffee shop I worked at as a teen.

We're going to take kind of a trip down memory lane.

Paul Vixie is my guide on this vintage manhole hunt.

So we're just going out in the street.

We're just going out in the street, real briefly.

He's an early internet innovator who helped build the Palo Alto Internet Exchange,

the data center we visited yesterday.

He's now vice president at AWS Security.

But back in the dot-com boom, he helped build fiber optic cable networks under these manholes.

Vixie and I were on that street for a history lesson about this current

AI boom, with billions being spent on huge, powerful data centers, and whether that echoes the dot-com

boom and eventual bust.

This is MFN. This is where I worked. And this one is RCS.

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