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Behind current AI spending is real productivity demand from cloud vendors and large enterprises, with inference calls, model training, and agent workflows all generating actual bills, which differs from the dot-com era when many companies had no verifiable business model.
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10/30/2026
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Valid until: 11/13/2026
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Fiber Lasts Decades, GPUs Only Three Years: The AI Boom Is Not the Dot-Com Bubble
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