I've heard making coffee at home instead of buying it out can help.

Does it? I thought this entire industry was completely unhitched from reality and was basically just one massive case of corporate fraud.

“It will have to go beyond the thing it already doesn’t do, to things it can’t possibly do.”

All they need to do is get governments high on AI mass surveillance and they'll be golden

"Once the AI is smart enough we'll ask it how to make a profit."

• Sam Altman, I think.

is there even that much money in economy that can be used for that? Where would it even come from?

At a current pace of what, -6 trilly?

All you need to do to reach that number is hire a major consulting firm. Arthur Anderson, PWC, Deloitte, HCL, TATA, etc. Time has proven that they are all agents of fraudulent companies who will make up any numbers you pay them to.

Not really. This article assumes revenue needs to cover total spend but there will be winners and losers so revenue only needs to cover the winners expenditure which is less than a trillion. It also seems to be using the wrong figure for datacenters. The amount of data center applications isnt the actual amount since they put multiple applications per data center to shop around for good deals.

Also the sheer amount of control you'd get from being the dominant AI provider is worth a lot. Its like YouTube running at a loss for 10 years now google owns TV.

Corporate bond offerings intensifies.

Pretending this isn't about a massive surveillance state part 357

They can already justify it: plenty of slaves to go around.

How much is the cure/treatment for Parkinson's worth? Or other intractable medical problems?

What about a device able to manipulate the containment field of a fusion reactor?

These are the reasons why everyone is buying the compute services - there are dozens of moonshot-grade problems that are suddenly possible to attempt. Many will fail, but whoever gets that one success will gain astronomical benefit.

It will be hacking foreign nations and surveillance