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Research frames AI buildout as data-center capital allocation
Aug 24, 2026SOURCE: theideafarm.com
SO WHAT
Over the thousand-day window, capital formation will determine AI access more than model quality, rewarding infrastructure financiers and compressing choices for everyone else.
Columbia Business School research treats the AI boom primarily as physical infrastructure financing. The wire’s signal: constraints shift from code to concrete, tightening who can bankroll compute.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.