[ExI] Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

[BillK]

Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and
software prices, analyst says
Lindsay Clark <https://www.theregister.com/author/lindsay-clark>
Published Mon 27 Jul 2026

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Spending on AI infrastructure is pushing tech sector expenditure to
historic levels,  and enterprise customers are already footing the bill
through higher software and hardware prices.

Lovelock told us: "The AI infrastructure build-out is the largest
infrastructure project humanity has ever undertaken. Bigger than the US
highways, bigger than European rail, bigger than the Great Wall of China,
and the International Space Station combined.

"That's how big this sucker is. It is transformational in that sense. We
are shifting from a world where we spend on information technology to a
world where we're going to spend on intelligence technology.

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It's AGI or bust! Full speed ahead!

BillK
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