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Margin Call
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Are we in an AI capex bubble?

ANALYSIS: It is reasonable to assume that American companies will spend more than US$1 trillion on AI infrastructure over the next five years.

Big three US-based cloud providers and Meta spent about US$115b pa on cloud-specific infrastructure by the end of last decade.

Ian Graham Tue, 06 May 2025

The money being spent on AI-related capital expenditures is enormous. Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are guiding for combined capex in 2025 of more than US$300 billion, much of which they’ve said is going toward AI infrastructure. The Stargate Project has earmarked US$500b over the coming

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