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Tech companies are in the throes of an unprecedented build-out of datacenter infrastructure in the U.S., the scale of which has raised concerns among some investors and industry executives about an AI bubble.

On Tuesday, investors were in the throes of a global stock-market selloff triggered by concerns about valuations from corporate chief executives like Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon.

That motif originated with his 2009 directorial debut, “Crazy Heart,” starring Jeff Bridges as a faded country music legend caught in the throes of alcoholism and trying to find a way forward.

This has raised some fears that Wall Street could be in the throes of an AI stock bubble reminiscent of the internet boom and crash experienced in the late 1990s and 2000.

“It feels like going off to college,” said Samaniego, a slender mother of four whose oldest is in the throes of college planning.