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Infra2026-05-10 · source-backed
CNBC reports investments include a $30B stake in OpenAI, $2.1B in data center operator IREN, and $3.2B in Corning for three new fiber-optic facilities. NVIDIA is financing the entire AI supply chain while ensuring deployments run on NVIDIA hardware. Critics flag the circularity of investing in your own customers. They're not wrong. But at this scale, NVIDIA is betting on the category, not individual companies.
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Mira Murati's startup secured a multi-year deal with NVIDIA for at least 1 gigawatt of next-generation Vera Rubin chip-powered servers, plus an undisclosed equity investment. The company has raised over $2 billion since its February 2025 founding. A gigawatt of compute — rough...
Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
8.3% stake in the Amsterdam-based neocloud planning 5+ GW of data center capacity by 2030. Jensen Huang called Nebius "an AI cloud designed for the agentic era." The neocloud layer (Nebius, CoreWeave) is becoming infrastructure between hyperscalers and AI companies. CNBC
Reuters, via Tech Startups, reports capital released against deployment milestones with Anthropic deploying up to two gigawatts of Instinct MI450 starting 2027. Same structure as Nvidia/OpenAI: compute vendor capital flowing to the lab that commits to buy the silicon. A two-gi...
On the August 26 earnings call Huang said "AI has reached its inflection point. It's doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue," and dismissed the AGI debate as "kind of senseless" in favor of whether AI does profitable work (CNBC). N...
Five months ago, Anthropic was running at $9B annualized. Today it's $30B. CNBC named them #1 on the 2026 Disruptor 50, above OpenAI for the first time. The numbers from Daniela Amodei's interview are hard to process. $1B run rate in December 2024. $9B end of 2025. $14B Februa...
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