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AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion-by-2031-to-justify-data-centres/Replying to @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Revenue is not profit. How are they going to pay their debts, for example? 6T in (fantasised) ARR is already about a third of US Fortune 500 total revenue over 2025, 21T. Good luck with that lol.
Replying to @nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
Their argument is going to be that AI is so good, it’ll just replace half of the Fortune 500 with their own agentic AI.
It’s so delusional.
Like fuck everything AI creates is so generic and bland even generic and bland corporate output looks nice.
Replying to @AmyAye@nord.pub
I don’t know.
There is a ton of corporate email pushers and power point makers which could be replaced by an AI model I think.
The current issue they are struggling with is figuring out who they can blame when it fucks up. At some point they will land on an answer that to that. We are literally in the age of people copy pasting AI output into emails. At some point that’s gotta give.
Replying to @tempest@lemmy.ca
We are beyond even that. It will read, write the reply, and send. There doesn’t even need to be someone to copy and paste anything.