Scottish Mortgage's Tom Slater: AI build out likely to be 'volatile ride'

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Michael Nelson
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Scottish Mortgage investment trust (SMT) co-manager Tom Slater said the build out of AI infrastructure is likely to be “a volatile ride” but backed his strategy amid increasing demand for compute.

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