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This looks more like an attempt of gaining scarce electricity.

If a country/state has to choice of giving power to data center A or B, it makes sense for Satya to make statements about how only Microsoft provides the most AI value

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Well, even though electricity is a commodity it still needs to be bought. My point is that people funding this will run out of patience paying for the electricity long before the public/regulators will need to step in a decided how much of it you can buy.

I guess you could always just use a fraction of the billions in investments and whip up a few new power plants. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25v2d7zexo

They don’t need to choose, just let them build their own power generation capacity.

What the hell is going on in this type of argument anyways? Utilities are normally private businesses so what does the state have to do with it?

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