Curing cancer. Reducing carbon emissions. Maximizing business efficiency. To achieve all this and develop untold social goods, artificial intelligence “accelerationsts” at companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI believe their industry has a duty to speed ahead towards superintelligence, or AI that’s far superior to humans at most tasks. Key to that revolution will be the build-out of data centers.

Meanwhile, a technical transformation of the workplace already appears to be underway. The nation’s largest employer, Walmart, said that because of its AI implementation, hiring will remain flat over the next three years even if revenues rise. Every business—not just the big ones—will eventually reckon with some version of that transformation. Whoever wields the technology best will get an edge.

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