Spreading the AI risk


By Karen WeiseEli Tan

A file picture of Meta’s data centre under construction in Eagle Mountain, Utah. The company is investing billions in new data centres like this one. — Christie Hemm Klok/The New York Times

DURING the fall, Microsoft announced a series of deals worth tens of billions of dollars to lease computing power for its artificial intelligence ambitions.

Meta secured almost US$30bil in finan­cing to build a massive data centre in Loui­siana without taking on the debt itself.

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