<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1>Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill</h1>
        <p>History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says</p><div>
    

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    <div><address><a rel="author" href="https://www.theregister.com/author/lindsay-clark" target="_blank"><span>Lindsay</span>
                <span>Clark<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></span></a><span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">    </span></span><span><span>Published</span>
Mon 27 Jul 2026<br><br></span></address></div></div></div></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><</span><a href="https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/27/tech-sector-pours-1t-into-ai-and-sends-customers-the-bill/5278845" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/27/tech-sector-pours-1t-into-ai-and-sends-customers-the-bill/5278845</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Quotes:</span></div><div>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.</div><div><p>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.</p><p>"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.</p><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">---------------------------</span></p><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's AGI or bust! Full speed ahead! </span></p><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">BillK</span></p></div></div>
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