@VraserX: You can be right about AI and still lose a fortune funding it. A new Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in AI infr…
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A Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in AI infrastructure investment from 2025 to 2032, highlighting financing risks and potential inefficiencies in demand.
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You can be right about AI and still lose a fortune funding it.
A new Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in AI infrastructure investment from 2025 to 2032 and flags financing that makes the risks harder to see.
I’m bullish on cheap intelligence. That doesn’t guarantee every data centre earns back its construction costs.
If models become dramatically more efficient, does demand absorb all that capacity? Or does somebody get stuck with a very expensive building?
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