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Jensen Huang made his first trip to Kazakhstan, meeting deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and praising the country's energy resources and data center expansion plans. The visit follows Kazakhstan's June announcement of a $10 billion AI infrastructure partnership with Firebird to build a 100,000-GPU computing cluster, with Nvidia planning to invest in the venture.
Microsoft has pulled out as anchor customer for Nscale's proposed 50MW (expandable to 90MW) AI data center in Loughton, Essex, which was meant to house 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs for Azure starting in 2027. The withdrawal reportedly follows warnings from UK Power Networks that sufficient grid capacity may not arrive until the early-to-mid 2030s. Nscale says the project continues and it is seeking alternative power sources and sites.
Researchers from the University of Bristol and Oxford used the Isambard-AI supercomputer to analyse all 172.6 hours of live play across the tournament's 104 matches, finding over 93,000 visible brand appearances for unhealthy food, alcohol, gambling and speculative products. Food and drink brands made up 70% of these appearances, with soft drinks, fast food, sports drinks and crisps brands dominating exposure, which the team estimates generated 267 billion impressions in the UK alone.