Chapter 3007: Everything is Ready, Only the East Wind is Missing

After experiencing the magic of the Blood-Dispersing Heart-Saving Pill, Howard understood the principle of hoarding goods for a high price.

Sometimes, no matter how much money you have, there are some things you can't buy.

The Blood-Dispersing Heart-Saving Pill is like this, and Nvidia's graphics cards are actually the same.

However, he was generally satisfied with the performance of Nvidia and Zack. Although both were embarrassed and reluctant, they ultimately gave him the result he wanted.

Forty thousand graphics cards were the highest mountain between him and half a medicinal pill. Solving this, the Microsoft data center was not a problem at all.

Therefore, Howard pressed on and made another call to one of the founders of Microsoft.

The capital circle has the same strict hierarchy as the Mafia.

However, it is difficult for the Mafia to choose a true top-level godfather, but the capital circle can.

The only godfather in the entire European and American capital circle is Howard. Every listed enterprise here is held by the Rothschilds in a certain proportion through various means. Not to mention those famous banks and top venture capital firms.

Therefore, Howard has an extraordinary influence on any enterprise in the United States.

After the phone rang twice, it was connected. From the other side of the phone came a middle-aged voice: "Mr. Rothschild, it has been at least ten years since you last called me, right?"

Howard smiled: "Bill, how have you been lately?"

Bill on the other end gave a dry laugh: "Not bad, you know, retired, just traveling around, spending money, giving speeches, doing some charity work."

"Very good," Howard said with a smile: "If you do bad things while doing good things, the positive and negative will cancel each other out, and God will forgive you, don't you think?"

Bill knew the other party was teasing him and could only laugh: "Charity, after all, is not for return."

After speaking, Bill's tone gradually relaxed and he said with a smile: "If God really wants to calculate my merits and demerits, I'm afraid it would take a powerful audit team to calculate it clearly."

Having said this, Bill asked curiously: "Mr. Rothschild, you called me today, surely not just to tease me, right?"

Howard smiled: "Many years ago, people said that when you bend down to pick up one hundred dollars, you will lose one thousand dollars. How am I any different? Time is precious, especially for people like us who are seventy or eighty years old, time is even more precious."

As he spoke, Howard's voice became serious and he said: "Bill, there is something I need you to do a small favor for."

Bill said without hesitation: "Just say it. The relationship between us doesn't need to be said. If I can help, I will definitely help."

Howard said: "I heard that Microsoft has a data center in Northern Europe, and I want to buy it."

"Buy it?" Bill was slightly startled, then said: "Mr. Rothschild, if Microsoft's cloud service is a Boeing 747, then the data center in Northern Europe is one of the four engines of this 747. An airline cannot dismantle one of the engines of a plane that is currently operating and sell it. Once sold, half of Europe's cloud services will be paralyzed, and it's difficult for other data centers to carry such a large demand in a short time. We didn't leave such a large redundancy in the design."

"Impossible," Howard said lightly: "When the Boeing 747 made its first flight over fifty years ago, I was one of the invited guests. You were only a teenager then; you can't possibly know more about the Boeing 747 than I do. Even twin-engine planes can ensure that when one engine fails, the other engine can ensure the plane continues to fly for 180 minutes. For a four-engine plane like the Boeing 747, losing one won't have any impact at all. Did you not leave any design redundancy in your data system?"

Bill hurriedly said: "Mr. Rothschild, this matter isn't looked at like that. The current cloud processing demand is very large, and the storage demand for cloud data is also shockingly large. The redundancy we left must also leave some margin for the peak period of data processing. If we pull out that data center in Northern Europe, half of the European users will be affected."

Howard paused slightly and said earnestly: "Bill, I knew your mother very early, so early that we were very familiar when she was still working at IBM. I can be considered to have watched you grow up to today. Don't forget how much help I have given you along the way, including when you were in deep trouble, it was also me who had people help you. Now that I, an old man, need your help, you are talking about this problem and that trouble; it's not very appropriate, is it?"

Bill was silent for a moment and said helplessly: "Okay, Mr. Rothschild, give me some time. I will have people prepare for data migration. After the migration is complete, this data center will be yours."

Howard was satisfied and smiled: "Bill, God bless you, so I am the same."

Bill said helplessly: "Thank you for your blessing, Mr. Rothschild."

Howard smiled: "Come to Rothschild Manor at seven o'clock tonight, I'll treat you to a meal."

Bill said without hesitation: "Okay, Mr. Rothschild, I will definitely arrive on time."

A few minutes later, inside the Rothschild family's family meeting room.

All members of the Rothschild family had arrived. The seats on both sides of the ten-meter-long conference table were full, leaving only the head seat for the patriarch empty.

Behind the seats on both sides, two circles of temporarily added small stools were also surrounded, because all the heads of the collateral families had also arrived.

At this time, the meeting room was buzzing with noise. The direct members of the Rothschild family beside the conference table were chatting happily one by one. Only Steve and his son were a bit depressed. As for the representatives of the collateral families behind, they were whispering to each other. They didn't know what had happened in the Rothschild family in the past two days, and they didn't know what Howard's intention was in calling them all here.

Among these collateral families, most were people with different surnames, but some were surnamed Rothschild. However, all the collateral families surnamed Rothschild were basically Howard's brothers or cousins, and those with different surnames were mostly people who married women from the Rothschild family and then pledged allegiance to the Rothschilds.

For these collateral families, they almost had no opportunity to come to the Rothschild family's manor to attend high-end meetings organized by Howard in the past.

After all, Howard is the head of the family, and he almost has no direct contact with these collateral families. The collateral families usually deal with some professional managers of the Rothschild family. Even Steve is not someone they can see if they want to.

Calling them here to hold a meeting suddenly today, all members of the collateral families were speculating whether Howard was preparing to pass the position of patriarch to his eldest son today.

However, what made their gossip hearts explode was that the eldest son, Steve, seemed to be one of the two unhappiest people in the audience, and the other was his eldest son, Royce.

Logically speaking, if he were to succeed to the position of patriarch today, the two people who should be happiest here should be them.

So looking at this posture, today's meeting shouldn't be a good thing for Steve. Could it be that the successor is being changed?

Because they couldn't figure it out, a bunch of collateral families gathered together, whispering to each other, and no one's mouth could be idle.

Such a scene made Steve sit on pins and needles.

After all, he is also a person who wants face. Being peeked at and discussed privately made him feel like a girl waiting to be sold in the Middle Ages, ashamed and unbearable.

Just when the scene was buzzing, the door of the meeting room was suddenly pushed open. The butler who pushed the door immediately retreated to the side. Immediately after, Howard Rothschild, who was in high spirits, walked in with a sturdy pace.

As soon as everyone saw him, they immediately stopped the noise and whispering, then looked at him intently, paying attention to him.

And it was in this process that everyone discovered that Howard Rothschild was in an exceptionally good mood.

This exceptionally good mood was like the state of an eighteen-year-old boy walking out of the bedroom the morning after finishing his graduation dance and successfully spending the night with his dance partner.

Logically speaking, Howard is so old, and he has more money than he can spend. He has eaten, seen, played, and done everything in this world. Moreover, he is an old fox who has long known what it means to not show his joy or anger. This state of being able to grin while walking is truly unfathomable.

Even the direct members of the Rothschild family were a bit puzzled.

They didn't know that the old master had already been happy once yesterday. Why was he still so excited today? It looked like he was even more excited than yesterday. Was there any other good thing happening?

Seeing the old master's smiling face, Steve felt even more panicked in his heart, secretly thinking: "Could it be that the old master has made another breakthrough? Otherwise, why would he be so excited?"

And Howard at this moment was already excited.

The graphics cards were settled, the data center was settled, and the rest was the data migration of the AI model and the local deployment after arriving in Northern Europe. Since data migration no longer required any external help, for Howard, it could be said that everything was ready, only the east wind was missing.

Before he came in, he had already communicated with the person in charge of the AI team. With forty thousand graphics cards about to arrive and the Microsoft data center about to be vacated, the possibility of solving the problem within a month had jumped from almost zero at the beginning to almost one hundred percent.

This also indicated that the distance between him and that half a medicinal pill was only less than a month away! ===== CHAPTER 3008 =====