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pizzathyme | 4 months ago

A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone.

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/h...

So I think if there was an AI crash, US economy goes with it in the short term

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hintymad|4 months ago

During the dot-com era, internet or IT in general accounted for a much smaller percentage of the GDP. So, I'm not sure how the percentage of GDP can help us gauge the scale of the bubble, if any.

AbstractH24|4 months ago

Doesn’t that prove the post’s hypothesis that this could be larger?