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Eric Hovde: “They're going to be spending projecting trillions of dollars…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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2025 Sunwest Bank Economic Forum with Eric Hovde

Published | Video Starts at 1:10:03

Adoption. Because of that, capital expenditures have exploded. And the amount of money on capex that's being spent and driving data centers and all the rest is through the roof. They're going to be spending projecting trillions of dollars over the next five years of AI spend, capex spend. Is it going to be sustainable? I question that. And we'll get to it. And how it's been financed so far is very questionable. (1:10:03–1:10:12)

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