The AI boom is now consuming more money than Apollo, the ISS, and the Manhattan Project combined — and it’s…
According to analyses from Reuters and Stanford University’s AI Index Report from 2025, global investment in AI has already surpassed the inflation-adjusted cost of the Manhattan Project, the Apollo moon landings, and even the International Space Station combined.
And the scary thing? It’s still accelerating.
More compute
It feels like Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is constantly talking about the need for more “compute” to keep pushing the world towards the next generation of AI, which is Advanced General Intelligence (AGI). What he really means is more data centers, which are racks and racks of servers processing AI requests. But data centers are incredibly expensive to build and run, especially in their power demands and cooling requirements. All this means that AI is rapidly becoming one of the largest physical infrastructure buildouts in modern history.
Gigantic server farms packed with specialized chips, enormous cooling systems and huge electricity supplies...
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