100 billion dollars

That is $100 000 000 000. If you have 1 million paying customers, each of them has to pay $100 thousand. If you get 100 million paying customers, each of them has to pay one thousand dollars just to recoup capital costs, and without considering the time value of money. Without upgrading components every few years.

Now multiply all the values by 3. That’s the reported projected investment in data centers for AI in 2025 alone. Three hundred billion for bullshit machines.

You may counter “companies are spending their own money”. But if you have an investment fund or a retirement fund, and I do, most likely you are part-owner of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, etc. We are part-funding this bubble. I am sure that everyone can think of better uses for these resources, from the betterment of humanity to the creation of thousands of new companies trying new things. Instead, we got bullshit and plagiarism machines based on stealing intellectual property at a massive scale.