Global|English (US)keyboard_arrow_down What We Do Insights About Us search Request an Introduction Log In INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY The Building Blocks Behind AI’s Next Wave Artificial intelligence requires physical assets and power to grow and scale. Oct 19, 2025 Shareshare A historic inflection point Railroads unlocked new markets and gave rise to industries like mail-order retail in the 1800s. Electrification boosted productivity by enabling innovations like the moving assembly line in the early 1900s. Then, as the 1900s gave way to the new century, the digital economy was built upon nascent internet infrastructure, which connected global markets and gave rise to e-commerce. Today, acceleration in artificial intelligence (AI) and its demands on data and computational power could have…