Imagine tech giants spending billions buying super-expensive tools (data centers & microchips) expecting millions of people to pay high monthly subscriptions for smart AI assistants.
If regular companies only pay a tiny fraction of what the infrastructure cost to build, big tech suffers a Monetization Gap. Investors panic, stock valuation multiples shrink, and sell-offs cascade down to semiconductor suppliers and chipmakers.
In 1999, telecom companies laid millions of miles of fiber optic cables. The technology was revolutionary, but demand took a decade to catch up, triggering an 80% NASDAQ drawdown.
Today, if GPU data center buildouts outpace usable AI enterprise revenue, tech stocks suffer a structural multiple contraction until revenues match investment capital.
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