PowerBites — Easter Week Edition

About this episode

This episode discusses significant AI-related events from the week, highlighting their interconnectedness.

Five things happened in AI this week that look like separate headlines but tell one story: Sanders and AOC proposed freezing all data center construction in America, Meta 6x'd its El Paso bet to $10 billion (and brought running water to 100 homes that never had it), Microsoft claimed a 2.1-gigawatt campus in Abilene rising from land where coyotes used to roam, the White House released its national AI framework in four pages, and the U.S. Treasury declared that NOT adopting AI is now a risk to...

People in this episode

Host: Julio Zelaya

Topics covered

• AI developments
• data center construction
• national AI framework
• technology investment
• government policy

Keywords

• AI
• data centers
• Meta
• Microsoft
• U.S. Treasury
• national AI framework
• Easter Week

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Microsoft, White House, U.S. Treasury

Places: El Paso, Abilene, America

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