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$100 bn server farms ↑ Grad jobs ↓ Alzheimer's ↑ Deep$eek < GPT-4

Azeem Azhar
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Hannah Petrovic
Sep 22, 2025
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Hi all,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week – 10 stats, in less than 250 words.

Let’s go!


  1. Sovereign AI? ↑ US tech firms pledged $42 billion in the UK last week, 1.5x all the venture capital invested there in 2023.

  2. H-1B visa price ↑ The US has announced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Roughly 8-9% of tech workers depend on them.1

  3. Server backup ↑ OpenAI plans to spend $100 billion on backup servers over the next five years to avoid compute shortages.

  4. Elon’s catching up ↑ xAI is narrowing the compute gap with OpenAI and is on track to overtake Anthropic and Meta.

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