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The economy is propped up by vaporware

2025-10-10 21:21:30.373492+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Techspot: Nearly all US growth in 2025 tied to AI and data center-related capital spending

Recent analysis by Harvard economist Jason Furman found that excluding spending on technology-related infrastructure, annualized GDP growth in the first half of 2025 would have been just 0.1 percent – underscoring the extraordinary influence of digital infrastructure investment on overall economic performance.

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