Fortune
The AI economy could crash on mounting chip costs — and those token costs won’t help
The AI industry's explosive growth may be undermined by the very infrastructure sustaining it, as GPU prices surge and companies take on significant debt to secure chip supply. The rise of agentic AI systems compounds the problem, generating massive token volumes that drive compute costs even higher. If revenue fails to keep pace with hardware expenditure, the economics of the AI boom could unravel faster than the hype cycle.
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