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摘要: 美国AI经济迅猛发展，科技巨头斥巨资扩建数据中心与采购硬件，显著拉动经济增长。相比之下，加拿大却遭“冷遇”：大量规划的数据中心项目迟迟未动工，且引发水电消耗担忧；企业与劳动力在AI技术及设备上的投资与应用持续低迷。这折射出加拿大长期投资不足与生产率滞后的结构性困境。尽管错失AI红利，但文章暗示这未必全无益处。
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As the AI economy booms in the U.S., Canada sees a blip
From data centre announcements that go nowhere to lacklustre business investment in tech equipment, AI mania is bypassing Canada. That’s not all bad
Jason Kirby
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A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data centre in New Carlisle, Ind. Last year roughly 30 per cent of U.S. real GDP growth stemmed from private investment in IT equipment and software, according to a Desjardins report.
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The frantic speed with which the
artificial intelligence
bonanza is rewiring the United States economy is staggering.
The U.S. now spends more to construct data centres than office buildings. Having roughly doubled imports of processors and servers from Mexico last year to US$90-billion, the U.S. is on track to double that number again this year.
Meanwhile, four tech giants alone plan to commit US$650-billion this year in capital spending. That’s almost as much as the U.S. private sector spent on all nonresidential structures last year, including factories, mines, railroads, warehouses and pipelines.
The manic rollout of AI-related infrastructure and systems is juicing economic growth south of the border in profound ways. In Canada, not so much.
While developers here have announced scores of new data centre projects – both standard facilities and large scale operations necessary to power AI – over the last two years, sparking a growing public backlash over water and energy-use fears, very few construction projects have gotten under way.
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Likewise, workers and businesses in Canada have been much slower to adopt AI or invest in computing technology, continuing a decades-long pattern of underinvestment that has left Canada a productivity laggard. This is all reflected on the trade fro
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