Court Painter typically makes the big bucks painting portraits of the powerful and infernal, however he has undertaken for your viewing pleasure- pro bono!, the Herculean task of rendering the leading AI Tech Giant CEO’s responsible for all this AI rigmarole boom and disruption boom.
Editors note: The images have not been generated by AI prompts. Just so you know!
Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
The top circle of AI tech giant CEOs in 2025 looks like this: dispersed tastefully throughout this posting.
- Sundar Pichai (Alphabet/Google)
- Satya Nadella (Microsoft)
- Sam Altman (OpenAI)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
- Andy Jassy (Amazon)
- Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
- Dario Amodei (Anthropic)
- Tim Cook (Apple)
- Elon Musk (Tesla/xAI)
- Arvind Krishna (IBM)
Sam Altman (OpenAI)
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https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/data-centers-ai-spending-boom
Selected excerpts from September 9/25 Axios Technology article What AI’s spending boom is really buying by Scott Rosenberg
Tech giants’ astronomical spending on AI infrastructure comes with a colossal hedge: In a crucial way, it’s not really spending on AI at all.
Why it matters: Most of the hundreds of billions of dollars in AI-related capital investment today is going into computing power, hardware and buildings — assets that will retain real value even if AI itself never pays off.
Elon Musk (Tesla/xAI)
The bottom line: On the financial landscape as seen from the Big Tech boardroom, a data center project looks like just another useful way to park some billions.
- If AI keeps booming, the companies will have capacity to keep up.
- If it goes bust, they have computing assets they can retool to support whatever comes after AI.
Sundar Pichai (Alphabet/Google)
Our thought bubble: Data center projects can spike construction jobs but they’re lousy at creating long-term job growth. As the well-known investor Nancy Tengler wrote Friday, “We believe companies are investing in technology instead of human capital.
- If only AI infrastructure spending were as effective at goosing employment as it is in training models, the U.S. economy might really benefit.
Tim Cook (Apple)
Satya Nadella (Microsoft)
Dario Amodei (Anthropic)
Arvind Krishna (IBM)
Andy Jassy (Amazon)
Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)