🍭 Stargate, Spotify, and Slop ⚡

Good morning. We lost our Texas office coffee to a GPU farm.

It’s now “Compute Roast.”
Please sip responsibly.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI announces new data centers

• Spotify’s full of AI slop

• How To Spin Up Creative That Works

• And Everything Else

OpenAI’s New Data Center(s)
💡 AI’s Real Boss Fight: The Grid

The Bite: OpenAI just unveiled five new Stargate data-center sites;

Ohio,
New Mexico,
Texas (two of them),
And a mystery Midwest town.

Add these to Abilene (already live) and CoreWeave, and you’re staring at nearly 7 gigawatts of future capacity and a $400B buildout plan.

The problem is that…
You can buy GPUs, you can hire welders
but you can’t mint electricity out of thin air.

Snacks:

• Site check: Texas ×2, New Mexico, Ohio, plus one Midwest TBD.

• Timeline: Lordstown, OH aims to boot up next year; Abilene’s already running.

• Scale math: 7 GW now planned, chasing 10 GW by end of 2025.

• Elon’s vibe: xAI’s shortcut is gas turbines on-site — literally bring your own power plant.

• Altman’s line: Wants a factory pumping out a gigawatt of AI infra every week.

Why it bites: The bottleneck isn’t chips or models.
It’s affordable and reliable power.

U.S. data-center demand tripled over the past decade and spiked again after ChatGPT.

AI racks burn 10–50× more juice than office space, and grid upgrades aren’t charity; they show up on your energy bill.

The real AI race is volts, not compute. Pay attention.

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_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🪙 India unveils $18.2B push for domestic chips

→ Government program targets semiconductor fabrication and supply-chain capacity to reduce import dependence.

👥 Meta expands Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger

→ Safety-forward teen profiles with content limits, tighter messaging controls, and parental permissions roll out globally.

🇪🇺 Apple says EU’s DMA is delaying new features

→ Apple cites interoperability rules for postponing AirPods live translation, iPhone-to-Mac mirroring, and Maps additions in the EU.

🖥️ Apple testing MCP for agentic AI across platforms

→ New betas hint at Model Context Protocol support via App Intents on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS to enable deeper AI integrations.

🎙️ NVIDIA invests in ElevenLabs

→ ElevenLabs’ cofounder says the deal includes support from Jensen Huang and follows recent US–UK AI cooperation talks.

AI Music
🧹 Spotify’s AI Cleanup: Labels On, Slop Out

The Bite: Spotify’s rolling out AI labels, a new spam filter, and bans on voice clones.

It brags about pulling 75M junk tracks this year.

It’s a long-overdue mop-up that gives real artists a little breathing room.

Snacks:

• AI tags: Tracks with AI get labeled, with credits tied to a new industry standard.

• Less noise: Spam filter will keep garbage uploads out of charts and recs.

• Clone crackdown: Fake voice impersonations are now explicitly banned.

• Big purge: 75M+ spammy tracks have already been wiped.

• Context check: Deezer says ~18% of daily uploads—about 20k songs—are fully AI.

Why it Bites: Streaming is drowning in AI slop, and this is the first major platform treating it like spam instead of “the future.”

The combo of labels, bans, and filters should keep some slop off your playlists.

Just don’t confuse it with Spotify suddenly caring about artists.

If they did, per-stream payouts wouldn’t still be pocket change.

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