The most consequential decision in AI infrastructure may not concern which processors to buy or how quickly a new facility can open. It may concern whether the physical infrastructure surrounding those processors can adapt quickly enough to a business model in which computing requirements and investment decisions can change during a facility’s development. For New England, that distinction could become an important factor in determining which AI infrastructure projects can compete economically. The region does not need to resemble a vast industrial corridor to support meaningful AI computing, but it does need a development model that allows computing capacity to follow commercial demand without turning every expansion into a separate infrastructure challenge.