Cathie Wood
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So we don't think people understand how profound some of these tax changes are.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, we're having huge buildouts of data centers and power facilities.
All of those depreciation schedules will apply to this boom in investment and contribute to it.
So, yes.
In fact, Carol, I was just going to say, many people think we're in a bubble.
And yes, the data center spending last year was about $500 billion.
And you can see all of this in our Big Ideas report.
We just released it yesterday.
And thank you, Bloomberg, for featuring it.
But $500 billion is a two and a half times increase from where it had been trending for years.
So big increase, no doubt about it.
But we think that number needs to go to $1.4 trillion in the next five years to accommodate the AI boom that is now underway and is going to drive productivity gains incredibly.
Well, we are in a technology revolution.
And many people thought that the internet was a technology revolution, and to some extent it was.
But today, instead of just one major platform evolving, we have five.
So robotics, energy storage, AI, blockchain technology, and multi-omic sequencing in the life science space, which we believe is the most profound
application of AI, healthcare.