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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 Bottleneck May Be Public Permission, Not Computing Power

AI companies have spent the past few years worrying about access to GPUs, electricity, capital and enough physical infrastructure to keep increasingly powerful models running. The next constraint may be harder to order from a supplier. It may be permission. Anthropic is reportedly preparing to identify negative public sentiment toward artificial intelligence and data centers […]

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