500B on software would be a lot. On infrastructure, it really isnt.
We spent this much (without adjusting for inflation), in 5-10 years on telecom build out in the lead up to the dot com crash. I'm fairly sure that there is still leftover capacity in the ground (dark fiber) today that we can leverage.
Smell like a bubble yet?
Looking back to that pre 2000's era, SUN was running on 50% margins, Cisco at 68%
Nvidia, 70% (and MS openly admits that they have GPU's on shelves not making money: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-has-ai-... ) Micron (memory) 70%, SK Hynix (SSD's) 70%.
For as much fun as the dot com bubble was, for as hard as the pop was, what came after was MUCH better. This burst is going to be brutal, and the sooner it happens the sooner we can move on to actual (sane) innovation, that leverages this build out.
Certainly doesn't feel like the 90s bubble from main street USA. I'm not sure if that means a burst will be softer or much harder on the middle class.