Megan McCarty Carino

And that's why tomorrow we're going to the belly of the beast.

You want to talk AI, you want to talk AI and money, you've got to come to the Bay Area.

Fair enough.

This final note on the way out today, in which I am required once again by the Business Reporter's Code of Ethics to remind you that tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.

Here is today's data point on that subject.

The CEO of Volkswagen has told a German newspaper that the company is rethinking its plans to open a second plant in the United States.

Here's the money quote, if you'll pardon the pun.

Given an unchanged tariff burden, he said, large additional investment cannot be funded.

The existing VW plant in Chattanooga, by the way, employs about 5,000 people.

Amir Babawi, Caitlin Ash, John Gordon, Noya Carr, and Stephanie Seek are the Marketplace editing staff.

Kelly Silvera is the news director.

And I'm Kai Rizdal.

We will see you tomorrow, everybody.

This is APM.

A one-week special series on AI infrastructure.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

A couple weeks ago, I walked through an office building in Cupertino, California, into an industrial-looking room with exposed pipes and a concrete floor.

Satish Vangala is the director of network product development at Amazon Web Services.

And just like interstates and highways, if you don't have the right infrastructure, you can end up with pretty bad bottlenecks, right?