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Analysis from the Abyshire News Desk on ai & automation.
The AI build-out's newest lenders hold GPUs as collateral, its biggest vendor is renting back its own chips, and its anchor tenant has never turned a profit. Follow the debt, and the demand signal starts to look like a funding signal.
Generating code with AI costs almost nothing. Verifying it still carries a full human price, and the distance between those two numbers is where the next decade of IT budgets is going.
The hyperscalers have quietly swapped cash machines for debt-funded construction sites, and the bill is being written by three memory makers who get paid whether AI ever turns a profit or not. That, not model quality, is what breaks the ROI maths.
Flat-rate AI was priced to win customers, and somebody else covered the difference. As billing shifts to tokens and renewals bite, enterprise buyers are about to meet the true cost of inference.
Companies are blaming AI for record job cuts while the evidence for actual displacement sits at zero. The doom story is an investor pitch; the regulatory and reputational backlash it manufactured is the risk your board should be pricing.