“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.

“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.

“Or sometimes just 54 days.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-16-post-ai-ai-productive-residue-5cc95ad345f9