Is the AI Boom… a Bubble?
Episode
21 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Investing, Fundraising & VC, Sales & Revenue
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What It Covers
Tech companies spend hundreds of billions building AI data centers while analysts question whether massive infrastructure investments will generate sufficient revenue to justify costs.
Notable Moment
Reporter Berber Jin visits OpenAI's massive Texas construction site wearing hard hats, witnessing eight data center buildings rising from ground the size of Central Park.
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