{"id":163144,"date":"2025-09-23T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:19:06","slug":"an-800-billion-revenue-shortfall-threatens-ai-future-bain-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163144\/","title":{"rendered":"An $800 Billion Revenue Shortfall Threatens AI Future, Bain Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Artificial intelligence companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1554630D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">OpenAI<\/a> have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/19963Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bain &amp; Co.<\/a> is estimating the shortfall could be far larger than previously understood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">By 2030, AI companies will need $2 trillion in combined annual revenue to fund the computing power needed to meet projected demand, Bain said in its annual Global Technology Report released Tuesday. Yet their revenue is likely to fall $800 billion short of that mark as efforts to monetize services like ChatGPT trail the spending requirements for data centers and related infrastructure, Bain predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,21719,7174,276,277,82636,49,48,95,2546,1829,83343,13627,290,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-163144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-amazon-com-inc","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-c-suite","14":"tag-ca","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-investing","19":"tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","20":"tag-microsoft-corp","21":"tag-quantum-computing","22":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}