BlackRock and Microsoft plan to launch a more than $30 billion fund to invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure to build data centers and energy projects, the companies said on Tuesday. AI models, especially those used for deep learning and large-scale data processing, require substantial computational power, leading to higher energy consumption. The computing requirements for AI have...
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