Muhammad – in a major development for both sectors of artificial intelligence and encrypted currencies, at Microsoft I entered In a five -year agreement with Nebius, a Netherlands -based company, to provide the GPU infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
At $ 17.4 billion, with the possibility of expanding to $ 19.4 billion, confirming the deal on the escalating demand for high -performance computing resources to support artificial intelligence technologies. NEBIUS will provide a dedicated GPU capacity from the new data center in Finland, New Jersey, which is scheduled to start operations in 2025.
The announcement of this partnership had a profound impact on the coded currency mining industry. The shares of mining companies have risen, reflecting the investor optimism about the increasing intersection between Amnesty International’s infrastructure and encryption mining.
BitFarms has significantly witnessed a 22 % increase in its share price, while the blade mining increased by 20 %. Other companies, including IRN, HUT 8, have seen riots platforms, and teraof, gains in the middle of adolescence.
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This increase in mining shares is particularly amazing given the simultaneous decrease in the price of bitcoin, which decreased about 1 % to 11,1100 USD. The difference between the performance of the Bitcoin market and the rise in mining shares indicates that investors are increasingly evaluating the capabilities of mining companies on direct price movements for encrypted currencies.
The Microsoft-Nebius deal highlights a strategic shift in the mining industry. Historically, mining companies were highly dependent on the prices of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, to pay profitability.
However, as a request for the power of computing artificial intelligence CondenseThese companies explore new revenue flows by taking advantage of the current infrastructure to provide services to artificial intelligence companies. An example of this axis is towards Amnesty International’s infrastructure through the NEBIUS use of NVIDIA technology in its data centers, as it has placed itself as a major player in the AI’s cloud services market.
The partnership between Microsoft and Nebius is part of the broader trend as major technology companies seek to secure a customized infrastructure to meet the increasing demands for the development of artificial intelligence.
With the global supply chains of GPU remains narrow, cooperation includes such that companies have reliable access to the necessary computing resources without being subject to the volatility of the open market.