Gartner warns AI boom faces a $4.9 trillion revenue gap by 2030

Data-center owners need $8.5 trillion in revenue to justify their spending, but Gartner says AI will bring in no more than $3.6 trillion The AI gold rush has a math problem, and Gartner just did the arithmetic. The research and advisory firm says data-center owners need to generate $8.5 trillion in cumulative revenue by the end of the decade to justify what they are spending. Its forecast for the AI revenue those facilities will actually produce over the same stretch is no more than $3.6 trillion . The warning comes from a Gartner report with a title that does not bury the lede: “Prepare for AI Market Consolidation: Capital Write-Downs Could Exceed $4 Trillion by 2032.” On the spending side, Gartner projects AI providers will put nearly $1 trillion into…

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