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Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, February 18th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Meta has struck a deal with Nvidia to buy tens of billions of dollars

worth of chips and other hardware for its AI needs. The social media company plans to use millions of

NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin graphics processing units

and a significant deployment of Grace and Vera central processing units

to build out its data centers.

Nvidia shares rose 2% in pre-market trading

and shares of chip designer Arm rose 1.5% pre-market.

Nvidia uses arms technology and its CPUs.

Meta shares were little changed pre-market.

Mr. AI has acquired infrastructure startup Koyeb to enhance its processes and bolster computing

capabilities.

Mr. All said Koyev's cloud computing platforms and

team will help developers run and skill AI without infrastructure snags so they can focus

primarily on writing code. Koyib's 16 engineers, including its three co-founders, will join in March.

The deal is subject to regulatory approval, and financial terms were not disclosed.

And the race to build data centers is fueling an AI debt boom, appending expectations for U.S. corporate borrowing.

UBS analysts now forecast $360 billion in new debt issuance from investment-grade U.S. technology companies in

26, up from $300 billion, reflecting increased capital spending plans in the industry.

If Amazon, Meta, and Google follow through on their planned investment, total spending by

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