Global alcohol spending ($1.7T) still tops AI infrastructure spending ($1.5T) this year
ohlennart · x · 2026-10-14
A counterintuitive comparison: global AI infrastructure spending this year is around $1.5T, while global alcohol spending still stands at $1.7T — humanity spends more on booze than on building AI compute.
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