Power Cut – Microsoft reduces spend on future AI-related data centers

[CarbonBasedUnit]

Ed Zitron draws conclusions from Microsoft's downscale of future data centers. Ed interprets this as MS losing faith in the future of AI but it could be a turn away from brute-force model size expansion and toward DeepSeek-style efficiency improvements.

I've been waiting for "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" breakthroughs and I hope this is the beginning.

[manbart]

Beginning of the end for the AI bubble?