$1 Trillion AI Investment Could Hit A Solid Wall

By Douglas McIntyre  •  September 26, 2025
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Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn is among the most famous and well-regarded investors in the world. He believes that the $1 trillion invested in AI infrastructure could be one of the riskiest bets in financial history and may turn out to be one of the biggest catastrophes. 

Einhorn’s argument is that the money Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI are investing in Nvidia technology and server farms as large as some small cities cannot be recouped in the near future. There are too few prospects for a large number of companies to invest in something that is essentially free today, and has few products on the horizon for which companies or individuals will pay substantial sums of money. 

Who Has All The Money?

Einhorn told Bloomberg, “The numbers that are being thrown around are so extreme that it’s really, really hard to understand them. I’m sure it’s not zero, but there’s a reasonable chance that a tremendous amount of capital destruction is going to come through this cycle.” In other words, a great deal of this money will be lost.

Einhorn is not arguing about AI’s eventual future, but rather that it is much further off than most companies spending the largest number of dollars on infrastructure have forecast. The world’s largest tech companies combined have a trillion dollars on their balance sheets. However, that could be spent in the year. Financial firms may back AI investments, but most will ask the same questions that Einhorn does.

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