Companies Are Spending $11.5 Million a Year on AI and Can’t Prove a Single Dolla

Alphabet (GOOGL) raised $85 billion for AI infrastructure while the average enterprise spends $11.5 million annually and can't prove a dollar returned.

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The average enterprise is spending $11.5 million on AI this year, and most cannot point to a dollar of return. That is the uncomfortable framing from a recent segment of The AI Daily Brief, which called the gap between AI investment and provable business outcomes the defining challenge of enterprise AI adoption. For retail investors trying to figure out whether the boom is real, that gap matters more than any keynote demo or capex headline.

The scale context dwarfs the returns. Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) just raised $84.75 billion in what was billed as the largest equity capital raise in US corporate history, earmarked for AI infrastruct

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