With artificial intelligence evolving at warp speed, betting on its future can feel both exciting and perilous.<\/p>\n
AI\u2019s impact on portfolios, the economy and everyday lives is getting bigger by the day. Mega-cap tech companies<\/a> riding the boom make up some 36% of the S&P 500<\/a>, with Nvidia Corp. accounting for almost 8%. The dollars flowing into the data center buildout<\/a> are so huge they\u2019re providing a significant boost<\/a> to the US economy. Meanwhile, AI is reducing the number of entry-level jobs and sparking worries about the demand for electricity<\/a> and water near data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With artificial intelligence evolving at warp speed, betting on its future can feel both exciting and perilous. AI\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[16544,363,19984,639,607,41078,134,527,1702,111,139,69,5611,115154,19814,3912],"class_list":["post-181161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-autonomous-vehicle","tag-bull-market","tag-china","tag-generic-1st-hg-future","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-infrastructure","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-small-business","tag-taxi-drivers","tag-tesla-inc","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}