{"id":617353,"date":"2026-09-07T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:34:09","slug":"opinion-the-ai-boom-isnt-like-other-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617353\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The AI boom isn\u2019t like other bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5C4J4TAXL5AP5FR2RFDRQUK5OM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in London.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MLFWZRG7TFGCXMT7VVFJ2JQAWM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Have you heard? We are living through a rerun of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-financial-page\/lessons-from-the-original-tech-bubble\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-financial-page\/lessons-from-the-original-tech-bubble\">great railroad mania<\/a> of the 19th century. Or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlyle.com\/global-insights\/research\/navigating-ai-risk\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.carlyle.com\/global-insights\/research\/navigating-ai-risk\">electrification boom<\/a> of the 1920s. Or the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s. It has become fashionable for analysts to compare the huge sums of money artificial intelligence companies are spending on infrastructure to the rollouts of earlier transformative technologies. But the AI frenzy may be one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-617353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}