The AI buildout has graduated from market story to macro driver.
The Fed chair now names AI investment alongside the Iran war as a driver of inflation and borrowing costs, while Beige Book and ISM data show the same buildout simultaneously carrying factory demand and trimming headcount.
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The buildout is now a named monetary-policy input, with its own cost pressure feeding the inflation environment it borrows into.
The chair now names the buildout alongside the Iran war as a driver of inflation and borrowing costs while his own Beige Book shows it trimming headcount — a macro driver, not a market story.
ISM shows the buildout carrying factory-gate demand, making AI capex a growth input in official data rather than an equity narrative.