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Housing slows amid AI-driven investments
Investing in artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of the U.S. economic growth, as major cloud computing companies are allocating billions of dollars to AI technology infrastructure, with expectations that spending will reach one trillion dollars annually by 2027. Meanwhile, the housing market remains subdued since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic boom in 2022, with investment in residential properties declining by 18% in the second quarter of 2026, while expenditure on data processing equipment rose by 51%. This trend aligns with rising borrowing costs and high interest rates, which negatively impact the real estate market, even as tech companies continue to pour in massive investments despite declining profits and forecasts of a real estate slowdown extending beyond 2028. Additionally, the widespread expansion of AI infrastructure may, in the long term, pose risks of energy excess if demand does not meet expectations, coupled with declining sentiment among construction firms and rising prices, which exacerbate the consumer cost-of-living crisis.
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