https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/trump-announces-500b-stargate-ai-infrastructure-project-with-agi-aims/
Apparently Elon isn’t the only skeptic. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chris Fabien Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:32 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ***SPAM*** AI Data Centers This article has some nice summary level information. I think the key is that data centers are moving more toward specialized use cases of which AI is one that is attracting speculators hoping to profit on a surge of demand for AI-specialized datacenter space, of which they key characteristics seem to be space, power capacity, and somewhat, latency to end user applications. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/09/30/the-billion-dollar-ai-gamble-data-centers-as-the-new-high-stakes-game/ On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM CBB - Jay Fuller <par...@cyberbroadband.net <mailto:par...@cyberbroadband.net> > wrote: Seems the world is losing its mind with these things. 80 million at the start of the year from Microsoft. Then today Softbank, OpenAI, and Oracle want to put one in texas and spent 500 billion. Yes, i'm sure they'll all have nice fiber connections and i'm sure we'll all link into them through the internet but what is the story? Are "old" data centers going to become obsolete? Will this explode? (maybe that is not the bestterm to use lol) like they think it will? What is the future here? What do we need to be doing to prepare for this in our businesses? Do we need to plan for higher capacity usage? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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