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Guthrie: Evaluate AI datacenters by revenue line of sight, not megawatts
“I would focus less on the megawatts that sometimes get reported in the press and more at where are those megawatts and what are you going to do with those megawatts? Is it going to be ultimately capacity that you can use to serve customers? Is it to build bett…”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 25:21 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
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Guthrie: Training-only datacenters cannot serve inference without global networking
“If you are, for example, building one large data center that only does training and it's not connected to a wide area network around the world, that's close to the users, it's hard to use that same infrastructure For inferencing because you can't go faster tha…”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 30:00 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
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Guthrie: Older Air-Cooled Datacenters Cannot Easily Be Retrofitted for Liquid Cooling
“That's a massive technology change. And it does mean that older data centers that are air cooled, you know, they can't just drop in liquid cooling and be effective.”
Scott Guthrie Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 31:56 Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
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