AI Capital Allocation and Market Implications

This week’s Investment Matters examines the topic of AI investment within a historical framework of overinvestment and the misallocation of resources. 

A rash of new investment in artificial intelligence in the US, especially by Nvidia, the chipmaker, and OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, has been announced in recent months. Investment in data centres and IT helps explain a significant portion of overall US growth in recent years. But markets have begun to concentrate on the financial engineering and cross-company relationships that funded this investment.