{"id":203738,"date":"2025-01-14T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/macquarie-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-applied-digital-ai-data-centers"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:22:35","slug":"macquarie-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-applied-digital-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/macquarie-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-applied-digital-ai-data-centers","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie To Invest Up To $5 Billion In Applied Digital AI Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/macquarie-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-applied-digital-ai-data-centers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s AI news, Macquarie will invest up to $5 billion in data centers being built by artificial-intelligence infrastructure company Applied Digital, adding to the Australian bank\u2019s substantial AI-related investments.<\/p>\n<p>And, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>The order calls for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities \u2014 to address enormous power needs on a short time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Microsoft is creating a new engineering group that\u2019s focused on artificial intelligence. Led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh, the new CoreAI \u2013 Platform and Tools division will combine Microsoft\u2019s Dev Div and AI platform teams together to focus on building an AI platform and tools.<\/p>\n<p>S strategy to enhance its AI capabilities across hybrid cloud environments.\u201d + In videos, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy announces a new \u201cupskill\u201d initiative on AI as they work to address a global skills shortage. He joins Caroline Hyde on \u201cBloomberg Technology\u201d to discuss the companies investment in educating people on AI skills.<\/p>\n<p>Then Eleven Labs\u2019 Louis Jordan demonstrates a conversational AI voice agent that can be integrated with Stripe to promote purchases, issue refunds, apply coupons and credits as well as many other payment related transactions with customers. Louis remarks that this is the future of in-app customer service.<\/p>\n<p>And, did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero? In this episode, a16z General Partners Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Angela Strange discuss how AI is revolutionizing labor by automating tasks traditionally done by humans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/macquarie-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-applied-digital-ai-data-centers\">Continue reading \u201cMacquarie To Invest Up To Billion In Applied Digital AI Data Centers\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s AI news, Macquarie will invest up to $5 billion in data centers being built by artificial-intelligence infrastructure company Applied Digital, adding to the Australian bank\u2019s substantial AI-related investments. And, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}