Why the GenAI Infrastructure Boom May Break Historical Patterns

Freedom to Tinker 2025-11-25

Summary:

Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar Observers invoke railroad, electricity, and telecom precedents when contextualizing the current generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) infrastructure boom—usually to debate whether or when we are heading for a crash. But these discussions miss an important pattern that held across all three prior cycles: when the bubbles burst, investors lost money but society […]

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https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/11/25/why-the-genai-infrastructure-boom-may-break-historical-patterns/

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Authors:

Mihir Kshirsagar

Date tagged:

11/25/2025, 14:36

Date published:

11/25/2025, 14:26