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A chipmaker is called the central bank of AI

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Nvidia is now being called the central bank of AI, setting the price of compute the way a monetary authority sets the price of money, as the administration opened public lands to data centers and the President suggested China is stirring the local backlash against them.

Reporting date: 2026-09-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Compute is recast as a fungible, durable, rentable asset

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A chipmaker is called the central bank of AI
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Reporting date: 2026-09-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-13-the-central-bank-of-ai
Claim: Nvidia is now being called the central bank of AI, setting the price of compute the way a monetary authority sets the price of money, as the administration opened public lands to data centers and the President suggested China is stirring the local backlash against them.
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- Welcome to September 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-13-2026
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