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His revised calculations show the industry needs $320-480 billion in revenue just to break even on 2025 data center spending alone. Current AI revenue sits around $20 billion annually.

It gets worse.

When you add 2026 projections with hundreds of new data centers, break-even revenue approaches $1 trillion.

A few more students paying to cheat on their homework (the single biggest use of ChatGPT) will not cover those bills.

[direct link](https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/1977807297759023375) > His revised calculations show the industry needs $320-480 billion in revenue just to break even on 2025 data center spending alone. Current AI revenue sits around $20 billion annually. It gets worse. > When you add 2026 projections with hundreds of new data centers, break-even revenue approaches $1 trillion. A few more students paying to cheat on their homework (the single biggest use of ChatGPT) will not cover those bills.

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or whether the path we’re on is sustainable, safe, or even beneficial for the public

Oh they want sustainable. Safe and/or beneficial for the public? I can assure they could care less about that. If AI gets more people killed (especially in the 3rd world), puts more people in for profit prisons, and soft kills with vaccines cooked up by AI, they'll call all that a success story.