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The incredible growth in AI adoption relates to AI's classification as a "general-purpose technology." Historically, inventions like the internet, printing press, and electricity revolutionized multiple sectors simultaneously; AI is now doing the same across fields like healthcare, genetics, finance, and manufacturing.
The demand is further amplified by the nature of modern AI models. Recent advances, such as DeepSeek's reasoning models, require significantly more tokens per prompt, increasing computational needs rather than reducing them. This shift from simple question-answer interactions to multi-layered reasoning demands more processing power, expanding the AI compute market exponentially.