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Investment in AI-related data center construction, compute hardware and networking equipment reached about 0.8% of US GDP in the first quarter of 2026, pushing total computing-infrastructure investment to roughly 1.5% of GDP — more than double the 2015-2022 average of about 0.7%, per Epoch AI AI infrastructure investment: ~0.8% of US GDP in Q1 2026
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