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WSJ Tech News Briefing

Tesla’s Supercharger Rollouts Slow After Layoffs

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tesla let go of its entire Supercharger team this spring amid company-wide layoffs, according to people familiar with the events. WSJ reporter Becky Peterson joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what the electric vehicle maker is doing to get the rollout of new charging sites back on track. Plus, the amount of data needed to run artificial intelligence forces companies to rethink their cloud infrastructure . Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.2

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, September 17th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.0

Artificial Intelligence and deep learning require a lot of data.

0:47.0

And that is making the cloud a whole lot heavier, metaphorically speaking.

0:51.9

We'll tell you about the infrastructure changes companies need to make in order to adapt.

0:56.6

And then, Tesla's supercharger network is widely regarded as one of the industry's most robust and reliable services.

1:05.0

Other carmakers and the US government want more drivers to have access to it.

1:10.0

But the pace of supercharger expansion has slowed in recent months.

1:15.0

We'll tell you why and what Tesla is doing to get things back on track.

1:20.0

But first, vast quantities of photos, video, sound and natural language are headed to the cloud as more companies turn to AI. To support all of it, information systems,

1:35.7

including the cloud, need to expand. But AI is also creating the need to

1:40.6

access all of that data at much higher speeds and lower costs.

1:46.0

Stephen Rosenbush is a Bureau Chief for W.S.J. Pro, and he's here to tell us more.

1:52.0

So Stephen, what changes need to be made

1:54.6

to the architecture of information systems

1:57.1

to keep up with this influx of data?

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