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Reuters published a piece. If companies like OpenAI or Anthropic fail, the massive financial ecosystem built around their existence could rapidly collapse. These labs are the primary customers for the $650B that tech giants are spending on new data centers and chips this year. Without their relentless demand for computing power, the expansion of new data centers would violently hit the brakes. It would also leave huge power grid projects and physical infrastructure investments completely abandoned and useless. Banks and private credit lenders who poured roughly $900B into this space would face severe uncertainty and massive potential losses. While a bigger tech company might swoop in to buy the failed labs for cheap, the overall value of the entire AI industry would instantly crash. Ultimately, the failure of just one of these major labs would not be a simple corporate bankruptcy. It would trigger a massive shockwave that drags down cloud providers, chipmakers, and global infrastructure projects all at once. -- reuters. com/commentary/breakingviews/what-happens-if-openai-or-anthropic-fail-2026-03-11/