Matthew Prince

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TBPN · Cloudflare CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Outnumber Humans 1,000-to-1 · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Hopefully it snows this year unlike last year's.

Yeah, well, I think there are sort of three different buckets why people are choosing to run inference tasks on Cloudflare.

I think the first bucket is exactly what you said.

It's latency.

And so especially for those things that have human and computer interaction where any delay feels like it hurts you, that people are trying to make sure that they can get the best performance.

Yeah, and so, again, there's a case for that.

I think the second case is that a lot of times for either privacy or regulatory reasons, people want to keep things as close to where they physically are as possible.

And so, you know, I think that a lot of especially in Europe and otherwise of places think that, you know, they made a mistake with the Internet kind of 1.0 and 2.0 of having everything go back to Ashburn, Virginia, everything go back to the United States.

And so I think that there's there's a real kind of sovereign desire to keep things local.

And that's important.

And I think the third thing is we actually can be oftentimes much more cost effective because of the fact that we are a network and because of how we're interconnected with networks around the world, bandwidth for us is effectively free.

And so it's very easy for us to get things onto our network.

And because of where we deploy systems, we often are in places where we don't have to pay for the space or the power, which allows us to then pass those savings on

to customers.

So it can be significantly more cost effective to use inference with us than it can be in some other places.

That's somewhat counterintuitive, but it's sort of the nature of what we've built and kind of the secret to what's allowed Cloudflare to deliver as much as we have over time.

Yeah, I mean, so first of all, I mean, we're going to need more data centers.

I think a lot of a lot of the discussion is is somewhat silliness.

I mean, the water consumption.

I mean, these are closed loop systems.

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