The Trillion-Dollar AI Capex Gap: Why Too Much Hardware Could Be Nvidia’s Trap and Microsoft’s Opportunity
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 21, 2026
The problem with AI valuations is that infrastructure spending is running far ahead of the revenue available to support it. Goldman Sachs estimates roughly $7.6 trillion in cumulative AI capital spending from 2026 through 2031. OpenAI and Anthropic, meanwhile, were generating com
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