What the Cognizant-Astreya deal makes visible is that the AI infrastructure investment cycle is now operating on a different timeline than the workforce it is nominally meant to support. Cognizant is buying the capability to design, build, and run data center infrastructure at the moment when the workers inside AI-reliant companies are concluding the bet was made without them in mind. The worker who described their situation as financially precarious is not an outlier — they are the cost externalized from a $600 million infrastructure thesis. The executives writing…