Citi's Luet Sees AI Infrastructure Theme Continuing
THE SO WHAT
Citi calling AI infrastructure a continuing dominant theme even as firms like Nextdc face public backlash means the capex wave is intact, but social license is now a gating factor. Infra builders should budget time and money for community engagement and permitting risk the same way they do for transformers and GPUs.
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