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> This jumped out: "By 2030, global AI data centers alone are projected to require $5 trillion of investment, while enterprise AI spend is forecast to reach $500 billion."

and by 2040 it will be $5000 trillion!

and by 2050 it will be $5000000 quadrillion!

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Ha, of course. A lot easier to forecast in a spreadsheet than actually make this happen. Based on the progress in AI in the past couple years and the capabilities of the current models, would you bet against that growth curve?

yes, there's not $5 trillion of dumb money spare

(unless softbank has been hiding it under their mattress)

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