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slowdown

[sloh-daun] / ˈsloʊˌdaʊn /


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A data-center slowdown “should impact estimates for AI infrastructure stocks as well as cloud companies,” UBS strategists said in a research note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The prospect of a data-center slowdown looks particularly tricky for Bloom, which has staked its future in providing on-site power generation through fuel cells and other means.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

“Our modeling suggests that even a modest slowdown in data-center pacing will cause semi revenues to undershoot the estimates,” Pies added.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Pies at 3Fourteen, for his part, believes there are other issues aside from seasonality that warrant investors’ attention — chief among them whether the tech sector takes a slowdown of the AI buildout in stride.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The packinghouse foremen made it quite clear that the prior day’s riot did not merit any discussion or work slowdown.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

They’ve repeatedly urged coordinated industrywide slowdowns in development but never acted upon them.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

In an article published on 6 September, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for the industry to implement "voluntary slowdowns" until safeguards are set.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The statistical results also identified a cluster of evolutionary slowdowns around 15 million years ago, which coincided with another major geological event.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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