Midha: AMP Is Securing 1.3 Gigawatts of Compute Infrastructure
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Anj Midha, founder of AMP, discloses the capital structure and scale of AMP's compute infrastructure buildout.
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“We have started securing about 1.3 gigawatts of computer infrastructure. That's roughly forty billion dollars of cloud spend over the next four years. And that is financed roughly, you know, between with about 20% of equity. The remaining is debt. So 20%, that's about ten billion dollars of equity capital.”
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