
AI: Meta Considers Renting Out Its Computing Power
The AI gold rush isn't just about algorithms, it's also about the shovels: computing power. And Meta, which has plenty of shovels, is thinking about renting some out.
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The AI gold rush isn't just about algorithms, it's also about the shovels: computing power. And Meta, which has plenty of shovels, is thinking about renting some out.

Facebook grew into an AI giant. Now it wants to rent its power to anyone, including you. A new business is on the horizon.

Meta wanted to scale up Google's Gemini AI, but there's a catch: Google doesn't have enough computing power to satisfy the demand. Result: access capped and deal downscaled.


While the US argues about AI rules, China is already laying the groundwork for tomorrow's computing arms race. And it's not playing with pocket change—nearly $300 billion in play to own the infrastructure that actually matters.
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While everyone's arguing about whether AI uses too much power on Earth, Elon Musk figured: why not just move it to orbit? David George, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and early SpaceX backer, reckons the freshly public company has what it takes to actually pull it off.

While everyone's arguing about which AI is smarter, Musk figured out something simpler and way more profitable: whoever controls the servers runs the show. SpaceX just inked a multibillion-dollar deal to power up Reflection AI, meaning Elon isn't just playing with satellites anymore—he's become the gas station for the entire AI industry.
The Trump administration is doing what it does best: throwing public money at startups with big promises, this time in quantum computing. Nine companies just got richer, but the real question is whether quantum computers will actually solve the problems they claim to, or if it's just another tech bubble waiting to burst.
What if you could build a data center the way you assemble Ikea furniture—except it actually works the first time? China just proved it's possible. The country's first prefabricated computing power hub is now live, and it's about to make traditional data center construction look like ancient history.

While everyone's arguing about who'll have the best AI chips, Google just did something weird: buy computing power from a company that literally launches rockets into space. The price tag? $920 million a month, through 2029.