Chris Bryant

Während der Ölkrise in den 1970er-Jahren vollzog die alte Bundesrepublik etwas Undenkbares: Für vier Monate führte das Land, das sonst für leistungsstarke Motoren und freie Fahrt bekannt war, ein Tempolimit von 100 km/h auf Autobahnen ein, um Kraftstoff zu sparen.

AI infrastructure costs just keep on rising. Big tech firms are likely to invest several trillion dollars over the next few years to satisfy your ChatGPT and Claude habit.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX needed comparatively little money to build a world-beating space launch and satellite-broadband firm. But as it reframes itself partly as an artificial-intelligence infrastructure company — offering both terrestrial and potentially space-based computing capacity — its financial needs are massively increasing. This doesn’t bode well for a mooted $1.8 trillion valuation in its initial public offering.

SpaceX's rising capital needs might be a tough sell ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering, says Chris Bryant for Bloomberg Opinion.

Things change fast in artificial intelligence. One minute corporate desk jockeys are competing to use AI coding and reasoning tools as much as possible, the next their bosses are complaining about budgets being pulverized and start rationing usage. Now OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman concedes that costs have become a “huge issue” for customers and he’s reportedly considering “drastically” cutting prices to rein in rival Anthropic PBC’s lead in the corporate market.

Chip scarcity is forcing up memory prices and making the likes of Micron and SK Hynix astonishingly profitable. That's a guarantee of trouble, says Chris Bryant for Bloomberg Opinion.

For anyone worried about the gargantuan costs of developing artificial-intelligence infrastructure, it was comforting to think that Big Tech firms could just turn off the spending taps if demand for chatbots and coding tools didn’t pan out. That’s starting to look like wishful thinking.

Germany is proud of its legal quirks, rightly so at times. No Sunday shopping, no jaywalking and no speed limits on the Autobahn all have reasonable justifications.

The far-right Alternative for Germany’s dramatic election win in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday is a watershed in the country’s postwar history. In a nation known in the modern era for stability, Germans in this small federal region have embraced populist, nationalist ideas in large numbers.