A few fun facts about A.I
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Total global investment in artificial intelligence has surged to unprecedented levels, with corporate AI investment reaching $252.3 billion in 2024 and expected to be even higher in 2025. Since 2013, investors have put nearly $1.6 trillion into the technology.
Key Investment Figures (as of late 2025)
Total since 2013: Roughly $1.6 trillion has been invested in AI by corporations.
2024 Investment: Global private AI investment reached $252.3 billion, a 26% increase from the previous year.
2025 Projections: Worldwide AI spending (including infrastructure) is forecast to total nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, according to Gartner. Major tech companies alone are expected to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 on AI-related capital expenditures.
Generative AI: This sub-sector has experienced significant growth, with private investment reaching $33.9 billion in 2024, representing an 18.7% increase from 2023. In 2025, foundation model companies raised $80 billion.
Investment Trends
Dominance of the U.S.: The U.S. leads global private AI investment by a wide margin, with $109.1 billion invested in 2024. This is nearly 12 times higher than China's $9.3 billion.
Infrastructure Focus: A significant portion of the investment is allocated toward physical infrastructure, including data centers, energy sources (such as nuclear power), and computer chips. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta have collectively spent hundreds of billions building out this capacity.
Major Deals & Partnerships: The industry has seen multi-billion-dollar deals between tech giants. Notably, the "Stargate" project, a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, plans to invest up to $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure by 2029.
Bubble Concerns: The rapid, massive influx of capital, coupled with circular financing deals between companies and alack of clear profitability for many AI ventures so far, has led some experts and investors to warn of an emerging financial bubble.
What do you think the future of A.I is? Maybe our good friend Larry Ellison (Ashkenazi "
Jew") knows:
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Larry Ellison is spearheading a massive global data center expansion for Oracle, notably the "Stargate Project" with OpenAI, aiming to build hundreds of huge AI-focused data centers, with the first major cluster starting in Abilene, Texas, using innovative power solutions like nuclear and gas to support immense computing demands for AI, distinct from Oracle's usual leased model by building massive owned facilities.
Key Aspects of the Initiative:
The Stargate Project: A massive collaboration with OpenAI (and SoftBank) to build vast AI data centers, starting with a 1,000-acre site in Abilene, Texas, to house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs.
Scale & Speed: Oracle is constructing some of the world's largest data centers, with facilities so big one U.S. site is sized to fit eight Boeing 747s nose-to-tail, built at unprecedented speed.
Power Innovation: Plans include integrating on-site natural gas turbines and potentially small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) for reliable, gigawatt-scale power, moving beyond just grid power.
Global Expansion: Beyond the U.S., Oracle is investing billions in data centers in Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and the Netherlands to meet data sovereignty laws and global cloud demand.
Shift from Leasing: While Oracle traditionally leased data centers, Ellison is now driving a strategy of building massive, owned facilities to control the infrastructure needed for next-gen AI.
Seems strange Larry Ellison, 81, older than my dad, is leading this push to expand A.I on a GLOBAL level with no clear reasoning other than "supporting future immense computing demands."
Idk boys.....I don't think the future needs of A.I are higher resolution cat videos for tiktok.
This post was edited by kingkawn on Jan 6 2026 06:32pm