16 October 2026
PwC projects $31 trillion in global AI infrastructure investment through 2050
First reported
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- PwC, a major consulting firm, projects roughly $31 trillion of global spending on AI infrastructure through 2050.
- The figure comes from an interview with Dallas Dolen, PwC's leader for technology, media and telecom clients.
- The source is a podcast teaser, so the estimate is a forecast and details of its method are not yet published here.
Our read
Only one of the 30 tracked newsletters, Big Technology, covered this PwC forecast, first reporting it on 2026-10-16. It follows earlier archive stories on the GPU shortage (2026-08-25) and OpenAI's power infrastructure partnership (2026-08-18).
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