--- title: AI Is Slowing Down | daily.dev description: Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry is structurally unsustainable, requiring over $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030 to justify the $9.5–15 trillion in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-slowing-down-665mveonm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Is Slowing Down | daily.dev og:description: Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry is structurally unsustainable, requiring over $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030 to justify the $9.5–15 trillion in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-slowing-down-665mveonm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/665MveONM.png og:image:alt: AI Is Slowing Down og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Is Slowing Down **[Where's Your Ed At](https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured)** · 33 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry is structurally unsustainable, requiring over $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030 to justify the $9.5–15 trillion in planned data center buildouts and compute commitments made by OpenAI, Anthropic, and hyperscalers. He points to concrete signs of slowdown: companies like Uber, T-Mobile, and Brex capping AI token spend after switching to usage-based billing, CFOs lacking visibility into AI costs, and OpenAI/Anthropic making up 89% of all AI startup revenues with no other major demand sources in sight. Zitron contends the circular economy of AI labs, hyperscalers, and NVIDIA is a con that required real sustainable demand it never developed, and teases an upcoming story he claims will confirm the worst fears of the AI industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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