AI spending will grow from $2B/day to $3-5B/day by 2030

AI spending will grow from $2B/day to $3-5B/day by 2030 | We're at $2 billion a day of spend right now and that's likely to go to three, four, five billion dollars per day by 2030.

We're at $2 billion a day of spend right now and that's likely to go to three, four, five billion dollars per day by 2030.

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  "context": "We're at $2 billion a day of spend right now and that's likely to go to three, four, five billion dollars per day by 2030. And those are just insane numbers.",
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      "label": "Stargate is a $500 billion multiyear capex program for distributed AI data-center construction (2025-2028, with Trump administration partner",
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