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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 9:31 AM EDT · New York
Brookings Puts the US AI Buildout at $10.3 Trillion Through 2032, or 3.63 Percent of GDP a Year
By that measure, data-center investment exceeds the railroad era's 2.24 percent and the highway program's 1.13 percent as a share of output.
An estimate published by the Brookings Institution, authored by Columbia Business School economist Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, puts cumulative United States investment in data centers and related AI infrastructure at $10.3 trillion between 2025…
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