alt Hacker NewsMoney can be exchanged for goods and services. I think the real constraint is actually physics, nominally energy, which is what a big chunk of the operational cost comes down to. I'm already basically assuming the next 20 years of fab time is set aside to feed the beast, so the capital cost is "give me all the processing and memory you have"
Data centers is a service that itself consumes many goods.
Until an AI can operate in the real world in a completely sustainable way, humans have the reins.