As founder and CEO of Nscale, the 32-year-old Australian turned a small Bitcoin miner into an infrastructure provider at the center of the AI boom in less than three years.
Now Payne must convince public market investors that his London-based neocloud – a business that borrows heavily to build data centers, purchase chips and rent out computing power – is worth betting on at a tumultuous moment.
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