Chapter 223: The Outdated Top Star
"We hope to acquire the data center that GDS is currently building in Nusajaya Technology Park." Oraz was already at GDS headquarters in Pengcheng.

The acquisition of Forest City is just a rumor that came from nowhere.

What Alpha Technology really wants to acquire is the data center built by GDS in Malaysia.

The graphics cards from Goldman Sachs will be delivered soon. These graphics cards are worth $50 billion and we need to find a place to put them to work and maximize their value.

We need to use this massive computing power to develop an application that can change the world.

Chen Yuanguang didn't want to waste any time. Building his own data center was too slow, and it would be a waste if he didn't spend the huge amount of cash on hand and turn it into resources.

After Oraz met with Johor state officials in charge of attracting investment on behalf of Samad and made a commitment to invest US$15 billion in Johor in the future, Johor became readily available to Alpha Technology.

This time we went to Pengcheng with the help of Johor State.

The global financial infrastructure crisis subsided after Alpha Technologies stopped providing quantum computing cloud services to the outside world, but people's interest in who Samad is has not disappeared.

This has also become the most discussed conspiracy theory among netizens around the world in recent times, and Oraz is Samad at the top of various speculations.

Huang Wei, CEO of GDS, did not dare to underestimate the young man of Southeast Asian appearance, especially when he knew that the other party had tens of billions of US dollars in cash.

“The data centre in Nusajaya is very important to us as it relates to our overall Southeast Asia strategy.

In principle, we will not sell it to anyone else.”

Oraz interrupted directly: "In the context of China, if it is not allowed in principle, it is allowed, and if it is allowed in principle, it is not allowed."

Huang Wei's face changed, and the chief technology officer next to him looked as if he had seen a ghost: "Mr. Oraz has been to China?"

Since GDS chose to build its data center in Malaysia, it had to deal with Malaysians a lot from site selection to negotiation to implementation.

There are many so-called "China experts" in Malaysia, but no one can see through their subtext like Oraz did.

So direct and unabashed.

Oraz shook his head: "No, if we had been there, we should have spoken Chinese instead of English.

I just did enough homework.”

A person who has been writing personal blogs for several years, most of the blog content is about studying cryptocurrency regulations.

It is not surprising that someone who can be so detailed as to note every change in regulatory laws and regulations and guess the disagreements between the Malaysian regulatory authorities and the technology sector can make such preparations.

Huang Wei said: “Since Mr. Oraz knows so much, then we will be more direct and sell it to see if the price is right.

The reason we chose to build a data center in Nusajaya is to provide infrastructure services to companies throughout Southeast Asia.

We have signed contracts with many companies, and some of these contracts are being fulfilled.

If we sell the data center to you, it means we will not be able to fulfill these contracts. It will not only be a simple matter of compensation, but will also seriously affect the reputation of GDS in the entire Southeast Asia region.

We had to select a new site in Malaysia, build a data center, and win back customers, and the time and cost involved was extremely high.

We were unable to fulfill our contracts, and our customers were forced to switch to other manufacturers, such as Amazon.

Amazon has been working in Southeast Asia for many years, and it will be very difficult for us to win back customers in the future.”

Oraz listened to the whole thing and just had two words in his mind: "Add money."

"Make your offer, Mr. Huang, no need to beat around the bush.

You make an offer. If it is within my authority, we will sign the contract. If it is beyond my authority, I will consult Mr. Samad. "

The chief technology officer sitting next to Huang Wei began to calculate their investment and losses while presenting a PowerPoint presentation, and finally came up with a figure: "US$30 billion."

This is equivalent to six times the cost of GDS.

"It's too expensive." Oraz said, "We don't have to rush. You just reminded me. We can cooperate with Amazon first.

Although you claim that you will invest a total of US$12 billion, considering that the first phase only has an investment of US$3 million, the first and second phases combined will be at most US$ million.

This price is too insincere.

Mr. Huang, there are many data centers in Malaysia and we have many options, but we are the only one who can pay cash, rather than cash plus options, to buy a data center.

This is a buyer’s market, not a seller’s market.”

20 billion is the bottom line given by Samad. Based on this bottom line, no matter how much Oraz can negotiate, he can take one thousandth of it as a bonus.

For his own interests, Oraz is naturally very motivated.

After Huang Wei heard this, he thought, "You just made $5 billion from Goldman Sachs, so it's not too much for us to ask for $3 billion. You are a middleman, making $5 billion won't kill you."

But this is just thought. The other party is right. The only advantage of Wanguo’s data center is that it is new, which is a bit too useless.

"20 billion?"

Finally, the two parties reached an agreement to acquire GDS's data center project in Nusajaya Park in a package price of NT$14.53 billion.

This includes the Phase I and Phase II of the data center which have already been built, and the Phase III which has not yet started construction.

On the other side, Goldman Sachs made a large purchase of AI chips from Nvidia, and the transaction details between Alpha Technology and Goldman Sachs were further disclosed.

Combined with the public cloud services that Alpha once provided, everyone realized that the field of artificial intelligence will attract new players.

“We will continue to invest in Malaysia, which is the new hub of the artificial intelligence industry in Southeast Asia.

Last year, Google said it would invest $20 billion to build data centers, Microsoft said it would invest $22 billion, and Amazon said it would invest $60 billion.

All major technology giants have invested in Malaysia. The boss once said that we should not be in the artificial intelligence business, but the energy business.

With so many data centers starting construction in Malaysia, energy will be the most scarce resource in the foreseeable future.

But this is not important, because we hope to completely change the current situation in Malaysia through artificial intelligence. "As the spokesperson for Alpha Technology, Oraz has become a celebrity in various news reports in Malaysia.

The Johor state is even more afraid that Alpha Technologies will run to Kuala Lumpur.

After all, compared to Kuala Lumpur, Johor’s only advantage is that it is close to the Lion City.

"I recently read a statement in the news that you are no longer the top star in the technology circle, and now Malaysia's Samad is the new top star in China."

This statement originated from the fact that when Musk was interviewed on a program, he announced in a high-profile manner that he would work with Chen Yuanguang to build cars. This decision swept through various self-media and media like a hurricane.

I thought it would be hot for at least a few months, but Samad suddenly appeared and no one mentioned it anymore. Then netizens started talking about the outdated top stars.

Lin Jia knew that Samad was Chen Yuanguang, but he didn't know how he did it, let alone how he acquired such superb financial skills overnight.

Unless there was a collaborator she didn't know about, but they had known each other since freshman year and had never been apart until today. If there really was such a person, Lin Jia felt that he had heard of him anyway. The reasonable inference was that Chen Yuanguang had really cultivated a powerful enough artificial intelligence in just half a year to assist him in completing all these operations.

Or maybe Chen Yuanguang really found a genius named Samad in the fields of cryptography and finance in Malaysia.

But this possibility is even lower than artificial intelligence.

Lin Jia had countless confusions in his heart and he had to keep them to himself. The best way to keep it secret was to keep it secret from everyone except himself.

But it would be strange not to mention a global sensation like Samad in casual conversation.

So when Lin Jia met with Chen Yuanguang and talked about his recent experiences, he would occasionally talk about Samad.

Chen Yuanguang understood Lin Jia's intention in mentioning Samad, and she wanted to pretend that Samad had nothing to do with her.

Given Lin Jia’s intelligence, Chen Yuanguang didn’t believe that he couldn’t guess the relationship between him and Samad.

"Yes, it's amazing. Fifteen billion US dollars in a hundred days is really an exaggerated number." Chen Yuanguang sighed.

Lin Jia complained: “You were almost the same back then.

However, there is still a gap between liquid assets and stock market value.

I now regret not buying a few units when Quantum Guodun came to Guangjia Aerospace to promote their Haohan-I quantum computers.

At that time, the selling price was only 5 million RMB, who would have known that it could be sold at a sky-high price of million US dollars now.

And I heard that the tech giants in North America even offered a higher price. As long as you have spot goods that can be shipped to Mexico, they can offer up to $800 million. "

Chen Yuanguang consoled him: “Have you ever thought that Alpha Technology is engaged in a monopoly business?

So it can be sold at this price.

If China were to sell the Haohan-I, I think it would only cost $100 million per unit.”

“It’s a monopoly business, just like when the fitness ring for Switch was first launched, its price tripled.

Some businesses are like this, the right time, the right place and the right people are all essential.

If it weren't for the help of the hacker team in Israel and Swift, I don't think this batch of quantum computers would be sold at such a high price." Lin Jia calculated.

Chen Yuanguang said: "That's right, and even if Guangjia Aerospace was sold at that time, it would not be sold to American Enterprises.

This money shouldn’t be earned by us.”

After saying the last sentence, Lin Jia rolled his eyes at him, the subtext of which was: Didn’t you make a profit?

Chen Yuanguang pretended not to see it and continued, "If Guangjia Aerospace wants to do research, I can apply to Lao Zhao and ask him to allocate two Haohan-Is.

You should know that I made great contributions when Quantum Guodun was developing this quantum computer. They are even inviting me now, hoping that I can help them develop a quantum computer with 100,000 quantum bits.

For us, there is no shortage of channels to buy vast quantities of goods.”

Now, not only are quantum computers not sold to the outside world, they are not even sold internally.

Big companies like Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba all want to buy the Haohan-I and take it back for research.

I have bought from Alibaba and Huawei before, and I want to buy two more.

In their view, the most critical technology here is nothing more than room-temperature superconductor, and cutting-edge technology has always had cooperation in the field of room-temperature superconductors.

Domestic companies have ways to purchase room-temperature superconductors.

Therefore, these domestic technology giants all want to reverse-engineer the Haohan-I. The fact that Quantum National Shield is ahead does not mean that we cannot take this path.

Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent are particularly holding this idea.

Haven’t you seen that Alpha Cloud abroad provides quantum computer cloud services to the outside world, and there are a large number of customers flocking to it at a price of US$5,000 per hour?

If they can develop their own quantum computers and provide quantum encryption services to the outside world through their own public clouds, wouldn't they make a lot of money?

Based on this expectation, the stock prices of Alibaba and Tencent have risen a lot.

“When will a quantum computer with 100,000 qubits be successfully developed?

I watched some videos online that said that once the number of quantum bits reaches 100,000, the logic of the computer industry will be completely rewritten.

And now all the major financial institutions have come out to say that they have quantum-resistant algorithms that can resist quantum computers from cracking codes, and that after 100,000 quantum bits, these quantum-resistant encryption algorithms will also become ineffective," said Lin Jia.

Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "No, it is no longer effective now.

For IBM's 1,000-qubit gadget, quantum-resistant algorithms are effective, but for quantum computers with tens of thousands of qubits, these quantum-resistant algorithms essentially won't last long.

Now the decryption time is only related to computing power. Once you are willing to use enough Vast-I to build a quantum matrix, no anti-quantum algorithm will be useful.

Moreover, the current decryption speed of the RSA algorithm is 10 seconds. If it reaches 1 quantum bits, the time will be less than millisecond.

Anyway, just wait, I don’t know when it will come out.

But I think that when the day comes when a quantum computer with 100,000 qubits is launched, financial institutions around the world will have to come to China for protection in cyberspace.

Previously, it was America that provided protection for these countries, and now it is China that provides protection for these countries in cyberspace.”

Chen Yuanguang found such a future very interesting.

Lin Jia said: "Isn't it being done now?
I saw in the news that China is vigorously promoting the currency bridge. This time, more than 70 percent of the countries in the world have joined.

In addition to America, most European countries, Korea and Japan have joined the Currency Bridge Organization.

From my understanding, Swift has been buried since the day it was hacked by the big hairy hacker team.

The sudden outbreak of the currency bridge has announced that its brain death has officially entered the countdown. "

Chen Yuanguang asked: "What is brain death?"

Lin Jia said: "People can no longer function, but still rely on some means to barely maintain their body functions. Isn't this very similar to Swift's future?"

"It is indeed very similar." Chen Yuanguang thought about it and felt that Lin Jia's metaphor was very clever.

America is now in an extremely dangerous situation, with internal turmoil and external younger brothers who are disobedient. Some of the second, third, and fourth in command are ready to make a move, and some have already made a move.

What’s even more frightening is that technology is changing so fast that not only may the nuclear bomb you originally thought was a dud, but it may also be used against you by others.

(End of this chapter)