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Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
TL;DRAI infrastructure requires massive physical and financial investment in chips, power, and data centers.
Why it matters: Understanding AI's real costs—not just compute—reveals economic bottlenecks and sustainability risks ahead.
A new Brookings Institution study notes the "strikingly physical" economic footprint of AI's buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center's costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to real estate and its…
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