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    Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own ANTHROPIC

    Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own

    Google has promised to cover up to $44bn of rent on data centres it does not own, if the tenants stop paying. Nine months ago that promise was worth $6.5bn. The guarantee is how Google sells chips against Nvidia, and it is the clearest measure yet of an AI build-out being financed by moving risk off the books rather than putting money down. Three more giants report earnings this week.

    Nadella won’t call it a bubble. He’ll only say how it ends badly. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

    Nadella won’t call it a bubble. He’ll only say how it ends badly.

    Asked on CNN whether we are in an AI bubble, Satya Nadella did not deny it. He set a condition instead: unless AI produces broad, economy-wide growth, "we're not going to have this movie end well." That was Sunday. The same weekend, his own executives told Business Insider Microsoft is so short of compute that Copilot is served before Azure customers, even as cloud sales quotas rise 30%. Earnings land on Wednesday.

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