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Epoch AI tracks the largest AI data centre in the world by computing capacity, and the record has changed hands repeatedly since August 2024 — Colossus, Anthropic and Amazon's New Carlisle, Microsoft's Fairwater Atlanta, Meta's Prometheus. Each time, the bar has risen at the same pace: a doubling every seven months
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