The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)

 (economist.com)

8 points | by andsoitis 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • with 2 hours ago
    > roughly 90% of GDP growth in the first half of 2025 came from spending on data centres and related capital investments

    yes, and people are still attributing GDP growth to AI-driven productivity growth, when in reality it's just capex growth.

  • alexhr 2 hours ago
    Speak for yourself economist.

    https://github.com/DecapodLabs/decapod

  • CqtGLRGcukpy 2 hours ago
    Interesting how they talk about all of these estimates or research done by other people, yet don't link to them.