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Blake Montgomery

DARK SECRETS: Five tech trends we ll be watching in 2026 - The Real Truth

A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI datacenter
You think you heard a lot about datacenters in 2025? Just wait. Photograph: Noah Berger/Reuters

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy New Year’s Eve filled with cheer, champagne and Mariah Carey’s comically awful rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

Today, we’re looking forward to the next year in technology news. I am watching five trends I think will define the year: datacenters will see rapid proliferation beyond the US and China; billionaires will reap billions more; self-driving cars will park themselves in a slew of brand-new locales; AI will find its niche at work; and consumer tech will take strange new shapes.

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