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Microsoft: From Copilot To Empire

Why this AI web could outlast political cycles and make MSFT the Boeing of the digital age

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Sep 17, 2025
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Back in 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi famously described Goldman Sachs as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” In the AI era, the squid has taken on a new form. Today, it is not Wall Street sucking fees from every transaction, but Microsoft quietly weaving a web of data centers across the globe. The new tentacles are made of GPUs,…

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