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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
AI infrastructure is hitting critical physical bottlenecks beyond chip availability—including severe energy constraints and limitations in real-world training data—that could constrain enterprise AI investments for 3-5 years despite massive capital spending by hyperscalers. IT leaders must prepare for supply scarcity, escalating energy costs, and potential architectural shifts away from current large language model paradigms, fundamentally reshaping AI infrastructure strategy and total cost of ownership. The industry is at an inflection point where vertical integration and efficiency-focused approaches will differentiate winners from those dependent on commodity components.
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.