This episode discusses how the increasing presence of AI scraper bots significantly impacts web hosting needs and costs. It explains that these bots, used to train AI models and provide immediate answers, are consuming a growing proportion of internet traffic, exceeding human visits. This surge in non-human traffic can lead to huge spikes in data usage, potentially pushing websites beyond their agreed-upon hosting limits and resulting in substantial increases in hosting bills for website owners. Consequently, web hosts may raise their base prices to account for these AI-driven traffic surges, leading some websites to block specific AI bots to manage costs.