Microsoft, Blackrock to Launch US$30 Billion Fund For AI Infrastructure
Microsoft, Blackrock to Launch US$30 Billion Fund For AI Infrastructure
Blackrock and Microsoft plan to launch a more than US$30 billion fund to invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure to build data centres and energy projects, the companies said on Tuesday.
貝萊德和微軟計劃推出超過300億美元的基金，用於投資人工智能基礎設施，打造數據中心和能源項目，這些公司週二表示。
AI Models especially those used for deep learning and large scale data processing require substantial computational power leading to higher energy consumption.
人工智能模型，特別是用於深度學習和大規模數據處理的模型，需要大量的計算能力，從而導致更高的能源消耗。
A computing requirements for AI have dictated that teh companies string together thousands of chips in clusters to achieve the nececssary amount of data crunching power leading to asurge in the demand for these specialised data centres.
人工智能的計算需求決定了公司需要將數千個芯片串聯在一起形成集群，以實現必要的數據處理能力，從而導致對這些專門數據中心的需求激增。
The investment vechicle knon as Global AI infrastructure investments partnership aims to help enhance AI supply chains and energy spurcing Balckrock and Micrrosoft said.
全球人工智能基礎設施投資合作伙伴被稱爲投資工具，旨在幫助增強人工智能供應鏈和能源採購，貝萊德和微軟表示。
MCX, the Abu Dhabi-backed investment company will be a general partner in the fund while AI chip firm Nvidia will provide expertise. The partnership will mobile a potential US$100 billion in investment when including debt financing.
阿布扎比支持的投資公司MCX將成爲基金的普通合夥人，人工智能芯片公司英偉達將提供專業知識。這一合作將動員潛在1000億美元的投資，包括債務融資。
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由於微軟在人工智能領域的重大投資和其通過與ChatGPT的製造商OpenAI的戰略合作所獲得的珍貴技術，Azure雲計算業務正迅速增長。
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