AI boom gets more expensive: interest rates on loans for data center construction rise

Rising debt from AI infrastructure is pushing up borrowing costs. Meta is set to issue bonds at over 7% interest for a $12 billion Texas data center, 0.4 percentage points higher than in October. The increase reflects lenders' growing concern over repayment risks.

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Baidu Intelligence Cloud unveils Tianchi supernode at WAIC to expand scaling boundaries of domestic computing power

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Baidu Intelligence Cloud announced the Tianchi supernode, a new computing infrastructure designed to push the limits of scaling for China's homegrown computing power. The supernode aims to support large-scale AI model training and inference, enhancing the capabilities of domestic chips and systems.

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