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I saw a figure yesterday showing that current AI data center investment exceeds all consumer spending in terms of GDP. This is important, because consumer spend
by matthewdgreen 1y ago
I saw a figure yesterday showing that current AI data center investment exceeds all consumer spending in terms of GDP. This is important, because consumer spending is normally 2/3rds of GDP. This means consumer spending isn't great, and data center investments probably can't sustain this pace forever. It's also not clear that there will be a return on these investments (one that flows to the specific companies seeing the investment.)
- strange_quark 1y agoI think the figure wasn't that data center capex exceeded consumer spending, but that data center capex contributed more to GDP growth than consumer spending did. Still really really bad and indicative of a bubble, but an important difference.