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Microsoft's AI Chip Sends a Chill Through Manufacturing

Microsoft's development of a better way to cool data center chips underscores the fragility of an industrial economy that's increasingly dependent on AI spending. 

Microsoft this week unveiled a chip cooled with microfluidic technology, causing shares of manufacturers that make data center cooling systems to fall. 

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Microsoft Corp.’s announcement that it’s developed a more efficient way to cool down the chips that power data centers sent chills through the industrial sector — and not in a good way.