Technological progress has always hinged not merely on breakthrough ideas, but also on the infrastructure that scaled them into everyday life. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to become the most impactful general-purpose technology in history—but only if it’s accompanied by a buildout of the necessary capital-intensive physical infrastructure to support its adoption. We estimate total spending on AI-related infrastructure will exceed $7 trillion in the next 10 years.

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