If there is one unifying theme across the entire AI industry over the past year, it has been data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/how-the-ai-revolution-is-triggering-a-hardware-arms-race-and-pushing-up-prices” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/how-the-ai-revolution-is-triggering-a-hardware-arms-race-and-pushing-up-prices”>staggering, unprecedented investment. Hundreds of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-signs-contract-to-buy-usd300-billion-worth-of-oracle-computing-power-over-the-next-five-years-company-needs-4-5-gigawatts-of-power-enough-to-power-four-million-homes” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-signs-contract-to-buy-usd300-billion-worth-of-oracle-computing-power-over-the-next-five-years-company-needs-4-5-gigawatts-of-power-enough-to-power-four-million-homes”>billions of dollars have poured into data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/despite-whispers-of-a-bubble-openai-is-planning-a-gigawatt-scale-data-center-in-india” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/despite-whispers-of-a-bubble-openai-is-planning-a-gigawatt-scale-data-center-in-india”>companies the world over, promising data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/despite-whispers-of-a-bubble-openai-is-planning-a-gigawatt-scale-data-center-in-india” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/despite-whispers-of-a-bubble-openai-is-planning-a-gigawatt-scale-data-center-in-india”>enormous innovation and profit-making opportunities in equal measure. Governments and private enterprises have scrambled to keep pace with its rapid evolution, and even if the biggest companies haven’t managed to make a profit just yet, that’s not stopping the investor dollars from flowing…
