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Joe Lynam

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

We'll take a very short break and be right back with you.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Catherine, we were speaking about AI in a potential bubble before the break.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Are you not a little bit worried about the circular investment that is going on in the sector?

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

For example, NVIDIA loans money to OpenAI, and I know Microsoft has a keen interest in OpenAI, which is partially owned by you guys.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

And then OpenAI buys NVIDIA chips.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

It looks like a circular investment which could go wrong.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

I mentioned at the very outset that yet another investigation has been launched by the European Union into Microsoft.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

We know for a fact the big tech giants don't like it.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

And we know that they have leaned on the American president who then in turn leans on the European Union.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Is it a good look for an American president to lean on the European Union with its 27 sovereign governments who've passed a piece of legislation, in this case, the Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, agreed by 27 sovereign governments, and they want to dilute it just because it affects American companies?

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Is that a good look?

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Despite the huge fines.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Do you think that the EU is stifling innovation?

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

What do you think about...

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

the image of your Uber boss, Satya Nardella, the boss of Microsoft, and other big bosses sitting around the table in the Oval Office or in the White House, very cosy with the US president.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

And it appears to some as if there's a bending of the knee going on in corporate America.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Among the 40 billion euros that you've invested in this country is, of course, data centres.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

Microsoft has its own targets to be not just carbon neutral, but carbon negative by 2030.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Microsoft celebrates 40 years in Ireland

How does that sit with building data centres that emit quite a bit of energy?