Comment by nosianu

You are looking at it from the individual's PoV, but the OP is using the bird view from high above. It is the total amount of effort deployed today already to provide all the existing AI services, which is enormous. Data centers, electricity, planning/attention (entities focused on AI have less time to work on something else), components (Nvidia shortage, RAM shortage), etc.

This is not about finance, but about the real economy and how much of it, and/or its growth, is diverted to AI. The real economy is being reshaped, influencing a lot of other sectors independent of AI use itself. AI heavily competes with other uses for many kinds of actual real resources - without having equally much to show for it yet.

Just an example: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energ... (it is worth skip-reading it all, the headline on its own is useless)