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Aug 2

AI Chip Capacity Expected to Double Every Nine Months

The computational substrate for AI is accelerating faster than most infrastructure timelines can absorb. Epoch AI's nine-month doubling rate means the installed base of AI chips will outpace demand for practical applications, creating a glut that pressures pricing and forces chip makers to justify capacity investments through either new use cases or geographic expansion into developing markets. Companies face a narrow window: lock in proprietary workloads at current costs, or risk commoditized compute that erodes margins across the AI software stack unless they've built defensible applications on top.

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Jul 18

China's AI Token Consumption Surges to 140 Trillion Daily

Source: Scmp

China's token consumption nearly doubled in three months (100T to 140T between December and March), signaling aggressive buildout of inference infrastructure across government, enterprise, and consumer applications. The scale dwarfs Western deployment rates. The jump from 100B tokens in early 2024 to 140T in March 2026 indicates China has resolved supply chain constraints around chips and power that plagued earlier scaling efforts, likely through state coordination of data center placement and domestic chip manufacturing advances. Token throughput directly translates to real economic activity: customer requests, policy analysis, industrial automation. China's trajectory suggests it will own the largest AI inference market by operational scale within two years.

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Jul 7

AI's Token Economy Hits Industrial Scale in 2026

Source: SiliconANGLE

The infrastructure for machine reasoning—measured in trillions of daily tokens—has matured into a capital-intensive, energy-dependent industry dominated by data centers and specialized storage vendors. Token throughput, not human users, now determines which companies control market value. Electricity and real estate have become the binding constraints on AI capability. This explains why energy megadeals and infrastructure investors now matter more than software companies in determining AI's trajectory.