Google's head of data center design has jumped ship to Anthropic — so will this lead to a huge boost in capacity?
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Top-tier data center and energy talent crossing from hyperscale cloud into a single model lab is a tell that frontier AI now runs on bespoke industrial infrastructure, not off-the-shelf cloud SKUs. If you’re planning multi-year AI capacity, start treating power, land, and construction partnerships as strategic inputs, not procurement line items.
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