The number of investors proclaiming they’ve made millions from AI infrastructure stocks is on the rise. That’s a dubious data point that’s surely synonymous with taxi drivers sharing the same hot stock picks near the peak of the market.
Every technological revolution eventually runs into a physical constraint. For AI, it’s becoming clear that bandwidth and energy are the main barriers the technology needs to navigate. The enormous computing clusters used to train and run modern AI models now consume staggering amounts of electricity and generate unprecedented data traffic between chips, servers and data centres.