BlackRock’s Fink Sees Inflation Risk in Slow Data-Center Buildout
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says delays in building data centers could raise computing costs and threaten economic growth as demand for artificial intelligence accelerates. "The faster we can build out more data centers, the more compute we have, the faster we can bring down the cost,” Fink tells Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on the sidelines of the Berlin Global Dialogue. (Source: Bloomberg)
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