Andy O'Donoghue

I know we've slowed down in construction of them here in Ireland, but in the United States of America, they're causing absolute mayhem in local communities and causing enormous issues in pushing up electricity prices for everybody and also the supply of water.

Could it be that artificial intelligence will not grow at the pace expected because it simply won't be possible to put the infrastructure in place for it?

Andy O'Donoghue is with us for Tech Thursday.

Only recently, Andy, we spoke about 50 years of Apple.

But I think it's appropriate now to talk about the man who's going to officially step down as chief executive on the 1st of September, Tim Cook.

Because I think the figure is when Tim Cook took over after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple was worth about a trillion dollars.

350.

And it's now worth...

Okay.

So that's a lot of additional value in Apple created under Tim Cook's stewardship.

Which were essential at the time of launching the iPhone and various other Apple products.

For design.

And that meant a lot of that moved out of cork.

Well, that would suggest that he put a big emphasis on hardware, was it?

That Apple was very much a hardware company, even though it also did generate an enormous amount of money from recurring services businesses.

So what you're saying is that there was no great new product developments, although the watch did come under his leadership and things like earphones, earbuds have become very, very important financially as well.

But it was all the things like your Apple Music, your Apple TV, your emails, your storage that you pay every year for.

But he hasn't wasted money on artificial intelligence, has he?

Or is that a shortcoming that he should have been investing in that rather than depending on buying AI services from competitors?

Why is it a problem?