2025-06-15
13 分钟Hey, What's News listeners.
It's Sunday, June 15th.
I'm Alex Zosola for The Wall Street Journal.
This is What's News Sunday,
the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
On today's show,
as businesses are finally starting to find ways to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations,
developers are already working on future iterations of AI,
including ways to embody the technology in the physical world.
But the question remains,
can the developers or companies make money from AI?
One of the biggest stories in tech over the past six months is the huge investments tech companies are making in data centers needed to power artificial intelligence.
In January,
Meta said it was allocating up to $65 billion this year.
In the same month,
Microsoft committed $80 billion.
And in May,
a data center startup that works with OpenAI secured almost $12 billion.
These developers have big plans.
They see one of the next steps in artificial intelligence as bringing it out of the cloud and into the physical world,