
Big Tech plans to burn $700 billion on AI data centers [1] this year. Wall Street cheers this massive number. Engineers see a financial death spiral. That staggering capital expenditure fails to buy proportional compute capacity. Infrastructure inflation devours the budget before a single GPU boots up. Building one gigawatt of AI capacity now costs twenty percent more. This hardware bottleneck occurs because: Memory chip prices surge uncontrollably; Power equipment shortages multiply across the supply chain; Skilled labor and electricity connections become scarce; This creates a brutal reality for businesses relying on off-the-shelf AI models. Big Tech refuses to absorb these escalating costs. They will pass every inflated cent down to API users. Companies building automation pipelines on rented infrastructure...








