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Will Thompson

Will Thompson

Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on Real-Time Intelligence AI in Microsoft Fabric

Jul 17, 2026

11:12
So can you kind of give the dumb guy version overview of what this shift kind of entails? What are you getting at here?
11:21
Yeah, so I think that...
11:27
I guess maybe start with, when I say geography in the paper, I use it as a bit of a catch-all, but it is geography in its holistic sense, meaning the geography is the government, the politics, the country, all of its associated socio-political attributes, not literally just like the geography.
11:53
It's a bit of a catch-all.
11:55
But if you look at interest rates and you look at, say, the last 10, I guess, 20 years since 2008, what you see is that the price of money has largely been set by a bit of a let's call it formulaic approach to understanding what that price is.
12:16
The price is set by the central bank at the very short end.
12:21
So money borrowed for a very short period of time is set by the central bank.
15:55
How do we as investors adjust to this new reality, in your view?
1:11
Thermal meltdowns, is that what they're called?
1:12
Well, I think that's a nuclear topic.
1:13
I like the analogy.
1:14
So why is this historically hasn't been a big issue? Because, you know, when we think about server power density, it was 10 to 20 kilowatts, which wasn't a lot when it comes about conventional cloud compute.
1:26
With AI, we've already jumped to over 100 kilowatts per server rack.
1:31
Next generation of GPUs, we're talking about hundreds of kilowatts, and, you know, I think even beyond that, people are talking about one megawatt per rack.
1:39
That is a ton of power, that's a ton of energy, and a ton of heat that needs to be removed from the servers.
4:46
I can definitely feel a lot of caution in the way you're describing this.

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