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A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone. Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-a
by pizzathyme 1y ago
A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone.
Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/how-americas-ai-boom-is-squeezing-the-rest-of-the-economy https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/h...
So I think if there was an AI crash, US economy goes with it in the short term
- hintymad 1y agoDuring the dot-com era, internet or IT in general accounted for a much smaller percentage of the GDP. So, I'm not sure how the percentage of GDP can help us gauge the scale of the bubble, if any.
- AbstractH24 1y agoDoesn’t that prove the post’s hypothesis that this could be larger?