FFXIV disconnections have been happening in NA very frequently now. Seems like every few hours. Now I hear people blame DDoS and or SE Servers. The NTT node in California closest to the FFXIV servers comes up a lot, which I think is closer to the truth. Why has no one mentioned AI and the US' deteriorating public infrastructures? US telecommunication companies are unlikely to increase bandwidth when the market is already saturated: basically most people are already customers in some manner and you only increase bandwidth if there are enough new potential customers. California also has the third highest number of AI data centers in the US and they are going to keep adding more. The internet only has so much bandwidth. Can it really keep up to the speed and bandwidth requirements of AI? Before AI, when too many people, and only people, were on at the same time some people would inevitably loose packets and or get temporarily disconnected. It's a traffic jam. Now my limited understanding of AI is that AI uses the internet and can use a lot of bandwidth at once stressing the limits. Just like AI is taking our GPUs and RAM by making prices higher, similar to electricity bills, is it not also likely that these AI data centers are using up nodes along gamers' internet routes? With 7.4 a lot more players are probably logging into FFXIV at once and combined with poor internet infrastructure and increasing number of AI data centers there is not enough road for everyone anymore. I would strongly urge SE employees to directly inquire from NTT if AI is creating bursts of additional internet usage at their US nodes. Is the "DDoS" problem just an excuse concealing another way in which AI is making our lives worse?
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