Amazon is buying billions in Nvidia AI systems it can't yet turn on
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AWS pre-buying billions in Nvidia racks and warehousing them while it waits for power is a blunt signal—compute scarcity is shifting from chips to megawatts and permitting. If you’re planning large AI deployments, start treating power availability and site selection as first-class constraints alongside GPU access.
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