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2 minute read Microsoft Just Built Its Own Ride Microsoft rolled out the Maia 300 today, its third generation homemade AI chip, and Reuters reports the company could deploy more than 1 million of them next year. One million. This is a breakup letter written in silicon. The chips will run Microsoft’s own AI services, … Read more
3 minute read The Circular Money Machine Is Now Official Here’s a sentence that sounds made up but isn’t. Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a data center, and that data center exists mostly to hold Nvidia chips. The Wall Street Journal broke this Sunday and … Read more
3 minute read First state to pause data center builds. A new trend? On July 14, Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing new hyperscale data centers across New York for up to a year. First state in the country to do it. Not a county. Not a city. The whole state. State environmental … Read more