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Google Is Buying Nuclear Power for 20 Years. That’s a Very Long Bet on AI.

Google does not know what Gemini will look like in 2046. It does not know which chips will train its models, how efficient those chips will become, whether today’s transformer architectures will still dominate artificial intelligence, or even whether people will still describe the technology using the same vocabulary. It is nevertheless buying electricity as […]

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Your AI Prompt Has a Capital Expenditure Problem

You type a prompt. A few seconds later, an answer appears. From the user’s side, the transaction feels almost absurdly lightweight: a text box, a handful of tokens, perhaps a monthly subscription. There is no visible factory, no delivery truck and no machine humming on your desk. But generative AI is one of the most […]

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AI’s Next Gold Rush Is About Power, Not Models

The AI industry loves a magic trick. A new model appears, benchmarks jump, context windows grow, agents get smarter, and millions of people stare at a chat box wondering what just happened. But behind that apparently weightless software sits something brutally physical: warehouses full of accelerators, substations, cooling systems, fiber connections and industrial quantities of […]

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