AI faces $6 Trillion challenge The global AI industry will need $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify investment in data centres, but existing services could generate just $1.8 trillion, according to Bain & Co’s annual global technology report COMPANIES SHAPING AI INDUSTRY SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS Create AI products people and business use AI labs Anthropic, xAI, Open AI, Meta AI, Google DeepMind Enterprise AI Palantir, Salesforce, Snowflake, ServiceNow HARDWARE Foundation of industry – design and manufacture physical chips AI uses, alongside equipment to keep data centres powered and cooled Hyperscalers Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Oracle Neoclouds CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, Nebius, Nscale CLOUD AND COMPUTING Convert chips into computing power, delivering storage and processing capacity Chip designers Nvidia, Marvell, AMD, Broadcom, Intel Chipmakers TSMC, Samsung, Intel, SMIC Infrastructure Arista Networks, Vertiv, Eaton Sources: Bloomberg, Aljazeera © GRAPHIC NEWS