The interruption showed how dependent users have become on hosted AI assistants and why AI infrastructure now faces cloud-service reliability expectations.
The important point is not just the headline figure. It shows how AI spending is moving into infrastructure, regulated workflows and distribution channels, where financing, compute access and policy exposure decide who can actually scale.
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