The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
Demand for processing power will continue to outpace supply
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If investment in data centres is about to slow, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg. On January 29th, during an earnings call, Meta’s boss boasted that the social-media giant had plans to build an artificial-intelligence (AI) data centre “so big that it’ll cover a significant part of Manhattan if it were placed there”.
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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Splashing the cache”
Business February 8th 2025
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