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Technology titan Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google is one of the foremost players looking to gain supremacy in the hotly contested artificial intelligence (AI) race. To that end, the California-based search giant has made an investment that can see it owning more than 5% stake in a data center company. Industrial-scale data centers, in particular in the domain of AI, are crucial as they provide the massive compute power needed to train and run large AI models, with high-speed networking and storage to handle enormous datasets efficiently.
Thus, Google's investment in Cipher Mining (CIFR) can become a vital cog in the former's ambitions to become a winner in the AI race.