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The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.

2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian

This year companies will spend $400bn on the infrastructure needed to run artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Predictions of the eventual bill are uniformly enormous. Analysts at Morgan Stanley reckon $2.9trn will be spent on data centres and related infrastructure by the end of 2028; consultants at McKinsey put it at $6.7trn by 2030. Like a bad party at a good restaurant, nobody is quite sure who will pick up the tab.

2025 July 31, Reporting staff, “Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom? A technological revolution meets a financial one”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025