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The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin

The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin

Update: 2025-10-28
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Somewhere between a biker bar in Nimbin and a data centre in Virginia, we try to make sense of the biggest capital boom in history. The AI revolution has garnered $400 billion of spending this year alone, nearly half of all US growth. What if it’s all built on industrial lettuces, tech that expires faster than it earns? From NVIDIA’s chip race to Meta’s debt-fuelled data farms, the same story keeps repeating: speculation first, profits later. Live from Australia, we trace how bubbles drive innovation, and destruction, from railroads to radio to AI. They ask who really benefits when Silicon Valley welcomes the bubble, Wall Street fears it, and democracies are left to clean up the crash.

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The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin

The AI Bubble: Boom, Bust & Baked in Nimbin