"Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told a rapt audience about how token factories, as he calls datacenters, will have to be distributed across the world, to diffuse the benefits of AI globally. To me, a long term, scalable solution is to have all of these token factories part of the real economy connected to the grid, connected to the telco network and that's what will drive that scale, whether it's in the global south, or in the developed world, Nadella said."
"When they weren't discussing Donald Trump, delegates at the World Economic Forum last week were being dazzled by the prospects for artificial intelligence. Up and down the main street of the Swiss Alps town, almost every shopfront was temporarily emblazoned with the neon slogan of a tech firm or a consultancy promising to tell executives how to incorporate AI into their business. Cloudflare's wood-panelled HQ urged delegates to connect, protect and build together, and Wipro's shouted: Dream Solve Prove Repeat."
Delegates at Davos encountered pervasive AI promotion and corporate branding promising operational transformation. Tech executives presented visions of distributed datacentres and widespread physical AI deployment. Satya Nadella advocated connecting datacentres — “token factories” — to grids and telco networks to scale benefits globally. Google demonstrated a new iteration of Google Glasses while Elon Musk spoke about SpaceX and Mars. Significant concern arose about an AI investment bubble and large financings of startups with little substance beyond ambition. Lax regulatory environments, exemplified by Texas’s approach to autonomous driving, have enabled rapid deployment by firms such as Tesla despite oversight questions.
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