Khanna: Tech and telecom firms will spend $4 trillion on infrastructure by 2020
Parag Khanna · a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain · Jan 2, 2019 · at 8:49
Global strategist Parag Khanna projects capital expenditure on subsea cables, data centers, and telecom relay stations.
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“These telecom and technology and kind of, you know, data industry companies invest about, you know, it's estimated that between now and twenty-twenty, let alone all the trillions that have been spent so far, will spend another four trillion dollars just on the physical infrastructure of digital connectivity around the world.”
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