The Billionaire Whose Army Fuels the AI Boom

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Scale AI’s army of gig workers is doing the grunt work that powers the modern artificial intelligence boom. Demand for the company's services has turned its young founder into a billionaire. WSJ reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the growth and challenges ahead for Scale AI. Plus, tech giants are scrambling to find ways to get clean power to fuel their AI ambitions. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Tuesday, September 24th.
0:23.8	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.7	Pledges from tech giants to cut their carbon footprints
0:30.0	are being upended by efforts to build up artificial intelligence capacity.
0:35.0	It's spurring companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to team up with power producers
0:41.0	to find creative ways to speed the development of new clean energy sources.
0:45.8	We'll tell you about them. And then a startup called Scale AI has built an army of data
0:52.0	labelers who are doing the work needed to power the modern AI boom.
0:57.0	Demand for Scales Services has made its young founder and CEO a billionaire.
1:02.0	Our reporter, Burber Jin, will join us to explain founder and CEO of Billionaire.
1:02.8	Our reporter, Burber Jin, will join us to explain how Scales Business Model works.
1:07.2	But first, AI Data centers require a massive amount of energy.
1:16.0	Consider this.
1:17.0	A search on a generative AI platform like ChatGPT uses at least 10 times the energy as a standard one on Google.
1:26.1	So as tech giants build out their AI capabilities, they'll need more power.
1:31.4	And to meet the emissions targets, many of those companies made just a few years ago,
1:35.8	they'll need that power to be clean. Our reporter Jennifer Hiller is here to tell us about those
1:40.8	efforts. So Jennifer, what are some of the new clean energy sources
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