Is it fair to say that AI is continuously subsidized? Once a datacenter is built and becomes profitable, why would anyone just scrap it? Even if the owner goes

Is it fair to say that AI is continuously subsidized? Once a datacenter is built and becomes profitable, why would anyone just scrap it? Even if the owner goes into bankruptcy, that's a huge capital asset that evidently people can't get enough of. It's kind of undeniable at this point that at least some parts of the AI boom have been really good for society. It just took a while to realize exactly where this was useful.