{"id":107785,"date":"2025-12-25T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/ai-faces-closing-time-at-the-cash-buffet-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:32:20","slug":"ai-faces-closing-time-at-the-cash-buffet-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/ai-faces-closing-time-at-the-cash-buffet-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"AI faces closing time at the cash buffet \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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opinion<\/span> It’s the season of overindulgence, and nobody has overindulged just like the tech trade: this yr, it has burned via roughly $1.5 trillion in AI, a stage of spending often reserved for wartime.<\/p>\n

Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost<\/a> the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. International AI spending, based on Gartner, is forecast to achieve practically $1.5 trillion<\/a> this yr, placing in the present day’s AI increase in the identical cash-burning league as two main wars.<\/p>\n

What’s lacking now – like in the previous few wars – is a motive for spending this cash in any respect. Some persons are beginning to ask uncomfortable questions like “If you make investments all the cash within the financial institution on a perishable expertise, what number of years will it take to see a return on that funding?”<\/p>\n

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