The world is in the midst of an AI wave that is driving unprecedented transformation: the creation of globe-spanning computing systems for Artificial Intelligence. McKinsey estimated this massive infrastructure project will cost $7 trillion in the next five years. Nvidia just announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build out a new generation of AI data centers, one of the largest AI computing projects in history. These are remarkable numbers that get even bigger when you consider the countless supporting projects, like many subsea cables, or local corporate and public sector computing projects, that will likely be essential for this global AI network.
But the really astonishing thing is that we are building this to upend much of our world. Here’s why I think that’s great.
I am a strong proponent of so-called “maximal thinking”: intuiting a means to change, and taking the new idea to its greatest useful expression. This has long been a wellspring
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