The US$2.5T bet: Why AI capital will mostly reward users, not builders

The AI sector is absorbing capital at a pace that has no precedent in the post-war economy outside the railroad buildout of the late nineteenth century. Gartner forecasts total worldwide AI spending of US$2.5 trillion in 2026, a 44 per cent increase over 2025. Hyperscaler capital expenditure alone, the spending of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, […] The post The US$2.5T bet: Why AI capital will mostly reward users, not builders appeared first on e27 .