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President Donald Trump has announced yuge deals with the United Arab Emirates — including a fantastic new AI data centre in Abu Dhabi! [White House]
The question is how to sell millions of Nvidia chips to the UAE. The UAE is under US export restrictions on Nvidia GPUs because the US doesn’t trust them not to leak chips to China. [Reuters, archive]
But if the UAE spends billions of dollars on US AI companies and data centres, that’ll get them a pass on the export restrictions.
Local company G42 is talking up a 5 gigawatt data centre with a couple of million GPUs They’ll start off with a one-gigawatt data centre. [FT, archive]
So what does this mean? Nothing. It’s hot air and hype.
In the rest of the world, the AI data centre bubble is deflating. Hyperscaling is a dead end. The US players are pulling back from their past overcommitments.
A new data centre has a lead time of a few years. If the new UAE data centre is built — which is not the least bit certain — it’ll be a gigantic white elephant.
The UAE needs money from something that isn’t oil, so they cargo-cult new tech. This decade, it’s AI.
Remember that by the year, 2020 Dubai will be fully powered by the blockchain. IBM tells us how “2018 is very much the year where we are starting to see serious adoption of the technology.” Can’t wait to see it in action! [Digital Dubai, 2016, archive; IBM, 2016, archive]
Following Mikkel Rev's debut album on the label in 2023, ‘The Art Of Levitation’, the Norwegian artist returns with Journey Beyond, a selection of tracks demonstrating his innate ability to conjure the most atmospheric trance music, irrespective of BPM.
Journey Beyond was created from an extensive set of tracks sent to the label that were initially sequenced as two shorter EPs. With the first offering a slower 80bpm trance style, and the second EP, a classic ~130bpm trance style. However, over time, with tracks swapping in and out, ASIP had the idea to create a mixed version, progressing through the tracks and increasing bpm's, showcasing Mikkel’s ability in bridging euphoric worlds - and a style that is often reserved for Mikkel’s live performances amongst the forest raves held as part of the Ute Collective in Norway.
Classic trance and the art of a DJ mix have been influential to ASIP since the label’s inception, making this release and the process of creating it a true reflection of how Mikkel and the label come together to define the end output.
Featuring artwork by Ventral Is Golden and mastered by James Bernard, the album is available now on Bandcamp to preorder for just $1, with full release following next Friday and a Bandcamp listening party the day before (Thursday 22nd, 11am PST).
