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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · today 10:34 EDT

'Stratospheric' AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers

"Maybe you've heard that artificial intelligence is a bubble poised to burst," writes a Washington Post technology columnist. "Maybe you have heard that it isn't. (No one really knows either way, but that won't stop the bros from jabbering about it constantly.)"


"But I can confidently tell you that the money being thrown around for AI is so huge that numbers have lost all meaning."

The companies pouring money in are so rich and so power-hungry (in multiple meanings of that term) that our puny human brai

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