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Inside the relentless race for AI capacity

The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom - but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed. 

“I don’t know any company, industry [or] country who thinks that intelligence is optional — it’s essential infrastructure,” Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, said in May. “We’re clearly in the beginning of the build-out of this infrastructure.”