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A shocking statistic is that YTD, 1/6th of the 2% rise in US GDP this year is attributable to AI Datacenters alone.

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/h...

So I think if there was an AI crash, US economy goes with it in the short term

During the dot-com era, internet or IT in general accounted for a much smaller percentage of the GDP. So, I'm not sure how the percentage of GDP can help us gauge the scale of the bubble, if any.

Doesn’t that prove the post’s hypothesis that this could be larger?

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