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Episode Synopsis
Where politics and power meet AI. In recent months, a subtle but politically astute rebranding has propagated across the AI industry. Leading figures like NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are no longer calling the backbone of AI infrastructure "AI data centers." Instead, they refer to them as "AI factories."At first glance, this might seem like hype-driven marketing speak. But the intent and implications of this linguistic shift are anything but trivial. The rebranding is deeply political, aligning Silicon Valley’s ambitions with nationalist industrial policy, particularly the Trump-era vision of reshoring American manufacturing.
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