> These two things are surely related eh?
Not really, no? If anything AI is the tech that is the most likely to disrupt this economic system beyond the point of recovery.
> What's the difference between these?
The difference is that one is a piece of hardware, and another is the person deciding what that hardware will do, and to what ends.
> unless you, uh, nationalize the data centers at which point...
The data centers are not the problem. The fact that you need to be employed to have any kind of decent living at the same time when automation is getting good enough to displace people en masse across most industries is the problem.
You don't even need to go full socialist to solve that! Just tax AI providers on their revenue proportional to the number of jobs displaced by it, and use those funds as a pension for the displaced workers.