There’s a particular smell to a boom, and right now it smells like liquid-cooled data centre halls and convertible notes. Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company most people outside the industry have never heard of, has just pulled in $3.36 billion in convertible financing from investors including Dan Loeb’s Third Point and Nvidia itself, ahead
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