Microsoft confirmed it is pulling out of a planned UK AI data center being developed by Nscale, because the electricity needed would not be available until the 2030s, while keeping its other agreements with Nscale. The article argues investors should distinguish suppliers paid for hardware, such as Nvidia and Broadcom, from operators like Oracle, CoreWeave and Nebius, which build data centers, rent capacity and must fund infrastructure while waiting for customers to pay. Nvidia has invested in more than 200 companies, while Broadcom's risk lies in customer concentration. AMD is competing with Nvidia through a deal to deploy 6 gigawatts of its GPUs for OpenAI, and it granted OpenAI warrants for up to 160 million AMD shares tied to milestones. Nvidia has also agreed to buy unused CoreWeave computing capacity under certain conditions through 2032.
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