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The Infrastructure Boom Beneath the AI Boom

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11 Jan 2022
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The AI gold rush is in full swing. Like every gold rush, the real winners are those selling the picks and shovels. In this case, those picks and shovels are measured in gigawatts.

Oracle, OpenAI, and the Quiet $30 Billion Shift

Oracle and OpenAI just inked a deal to add 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity for data centers. That’s enough to power over 3 million U.S. homes. That infrastructure will support a $30 billion/year partnership, 3x OpenAI’s annual recurring revenue.

It’s all part of “Stargate,” the rumored $500 billion initiative to redefine AI infrastructure from the ground up.

From what we can tell, Oracle’s bet seems to be paying off: its cloud infrastructure unit now generates 43% of its total revenue, growing over 50% last quarter and expected to accelerate to 70% this year. Its stock is up 46% YTD and trades at 56x earnings.

But this isn’t just about Oracle. It’s about a much broader shift.

AI Is Infrastructure Now

AI doesn’t run on your phone. It runs in data centers, packed with GPUs, liquid cooling systems, and power-hungry compute nodes.

Big Tech knows it. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are on track to spend $340 billion on capex this year, more than the entire GDP of Finland.

Capital investment in AI infrastructure has already outpaced the peak of the dot-com telecom boom and 5G buildouts as a share of global GDP.

This is no longer just a software story. It’s infrastructure.

Where TAHO Fits In

This shift, from cloud as commodity to cloud as core differentiator, opens space for a new layer: the cloud performance layer. 

This is where TAHO comes in. The software intelligence that legacy orchestration was never built to handle.

While hyperscalers battle to build the physical substrate, power, cooling, GPUs, racks, the software layer that runs on top must evolve too. Simply stated: legacy orchestration doesn’t cut it anymore. AI workloads are dynamic, bursty, cross-cloud, and deeply dependent on system-level optimization.

TAHO is building the infrastructure software for modern-day computing. The connective tissue that turns fragmented infrastructure into a coherent, adaptable platform.

Not another cloud. Not a dev tool. A system-level intelligence layer that makes today's $500B AI infrastructure legible, usable, and efficient.

TAHO turns the AI infrastructure surge from raw horsepower into winning performance.

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