$6T in annual AI revenue needed to pay off data center investments

Hyperscalers are rushing to build more data centers to run AI  workloads — but will the AI industry ever generate enough revenue to pay for that infrastructure? Researchers at Bain and Company have looked into this and concluded that productivity gains from existing AI services are not enough to justify the money being pumped in: AI companies and the hyperscalers that power them will need to create brand new markets for their services . Bain said the “arms race” among hyperscalers is acceleratin