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An $800 Billion Revenue Shortfall Threatens AI Future, Bain Says


AI companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm Bain & Co. is estimating the shortfall could be far larger ...

AI companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Yet their revenue is likely to fall $800 billion short of that mark as efforts to monetize services like ChatGPT trail the spending requirements for data centers and related infrastructure, Bain predicted. The increasing popularity of services such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, as well as AI efforts by companies across the planet, means demand for computing capacity and energy is rising at a rapid clip.

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