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The Big Wrinkle in the Multitrillion-Dollar AI Buildout offers an unprecedented deep dive into the massive global investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, exploring the stakes, risks, and opportunities of the AI revolution. From cutting-edge data centers and specialized GPUs to trillion-dollar financial commitments, this book uncovers the tension at the heart of the AI buildout: massive ambition colliding with technological, financial, and societal limits-a challenge the author calls ""the wrinkle.""Through ten comprehensive chapters, readers are guided from the scale and drivers of AI investment to the hidden fragilities of obsolescence, overcapacity, and concentration of market power. The book examines technical challenges such as energy consumption, cooling, and sustainability, while analyzing economic, social, and policy implications. It also explores alternative innovation pathways, global competition, and potential future scenarios, offering insight into how companies, governments, and societies can navigate this unprecedented era. Blending rigorous analysis with accessible storytelling, this book provides a roadmap for understanding AI not just as a technological phenomenon, but as a transformative force with economic, operational, and societal consequences. It is essential reading for business leaders, policymakers, technologists, investors, and anyone seeking to understand how the largest AI investments of our time will shape the future of innovation, work, and global competitiveness.

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