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		pizzathyme 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com ... A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone. Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/h... So I think if there was an AI crash, US economy goes with it in the short term

hintymad 66 days ago [–]

During the dot-com era, internet or IT in general accounted for a much smaller percentage of the GDP. So, I'm not sure how the percentage of GDP can help us gauge the scale of the bubble, if any.

AbstractH24 65 days ago | [–]

Doesn’t that prove the post’s hypothesis that this could be larger?

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