Wall Street's fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip startups to stay ahead in AI
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Leading Wall Street high-frequency trading firms, including Jane Street and Hudson River Trading, are aggressively expanding their AI infrastructure to maintain competitive advantages. These institutions are investing billions into cloud contracts, proprietary data centers, and chip startups as machine learning becomes critical for predicting market movements. Compute spending has surged ten to twenty times higher since the launch of ChatGPT, with some firms like Hudson River Trading allocating $1 billion annually to AI initiatives. Jane Street has established a massive data center in Texas equipped with over 4,000 Nvidia GPUs and secured significant financial ties with CoreWeave through both service commitments and direct equity investment. Additionally, Jane Street led funding for chip startup Etched, becoming its first customer for specialized AI hardware designed to operate at lower voltages. Despite rising costs and concerns about rapid technological obsolescence, executives argue that failing to invest in AI poses a greater risk than the financial burden itself.
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