Big Technology Podcast · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, shared projections indicating that automated traffic could be a thousand times greater than human traffic online within five years, based on current trends. This surge in AI activity is expected to place significant strain on internet infrastructure.
“And if we just assume the current trends, what's, what blows my mind is that if you just fast forward five years from now, um, we estimate now that automated traffic online will be a thousand times what human traffic is.”
“And that's going to put, you know, enormous strain on the resources of the internet, it's gonna put enormous strain on the infrastructure.”