COmputing power growth rate is likely biggest metric tp assess how the tech industry is doing and possibly better at measuring an economy than GDP.
The risk asdociated with having elephant flow like ownership, e.g 20% controlling 80% could be catastrophic for numbers of reasons:
Lack of fault tolerance of core services
Lack of provacy due to vertical stack ownership
Ability to map users on internet
Ability to break cryptography
Extension of above, ability to control alt currency.
Ability to attack networks.
Etc. we need to get a pulse on this and it is a bigger existential threat than ai in short term.