The capital story and the deployment story are on two different clocks — Gartner sees a 47% YoY surge while SMB integration stalls.
MarketsandMarkets sees the AI economy growing from $602B to $3.6T at a 29.3% CAGR, even as the Nasdaq dropped 2.9% Tuesday and an SAS/IDC survey found most small businesses stuck in pilots.
Capital intensity at the closed-frontier envelope; headcount reduction concentrated in layers the new infrastructure does not replace.