Meet the Data Center Builders Behind A.I.’s Next IPO Wave
Tareq Amin is overseeing Saudi Arabia’s A.I.
Tareq Amin is overseeing Saudi Arabia’s A.I. push.
Photo by Amal Alhasan/Getty Images for Fortune Media Sam Altman and Dario Amodei may cinch the most coveted magazine covers and even get a reluctant taste of Hollywood stardom—Amodei sat for interviews in a buzzy Sundance documentary this year, while Altman is about to be portrayed on screen by Andrew Garfield in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial—but the defining financial drama of the era is playing out on ranchland, farmland and the floor of an Appalachian river valley, where data centers are built. The people running the largest data centers often don’t get the viral headlines.
First reported by Observer.
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