Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $80 billion this fiscal year building out data centers, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence. Microsoft said it’s building out the data centers to be able to train and deploy AI models, as well as to power its cloud-based applications. While that’s the entirety of its budget for projects around the world, more than half of it will go towards building data centers in the United States. It’s now calling for the incoming Trump administration to expand the government’s support for the advancement of AI within the US, such as providing the National Science Foundation and US universities more funding for research. Do you think that AI developers should be slowed down until we have regulations in place ?

