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SMIC CEO Warns Against AI Data-Center Overbuild
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. Co-CEO Zhao Haijun warned Wednesday on an analyst call that big tech is racing to overbuild AI data centers, per Bloomberg. Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon plan nearly $700 billion in AI spending this year and over $3 trillion over three years, raising risks of stranded capacity and obsolete AI chips as hardware depreciates in 2–6 years.
Key Points
- 1Warns about rapid AI data-center expansion: firms seek to build years of capacity within months.
- 2Highlights massive spending: Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon plan nearly $700B this year.
- 3Notes chip depreciation risk: 2–6 year useful lives may strand hardware as new models emerge.
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