@VraserX: Big Tech AI capex is on track to exceed $730 BILLION this year. We’re well past “companies experimenting with AI.” This…
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Big Tech AI capital expenditure is on track to exceed $730 billion this year, representing infrastructure spending on a scale comparable to a new industrial era or a historic bubble.
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Big Tech AI capex is on track to exceed $730 BILLION this year.
We’re well past “companies experimenting with AI.”
This is infrastructure spending on the scale of a new industrial era.
Or a historic bubble.
Possibly both.
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