# AI in gdp

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> Published: 2026-05-28 17:19:16+00:00

# AI in gdp

- Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by three compounding forces: expanding data-center capacity, hardware efficiency gains, and—the largest of the three—algorithmic progress.
- Treating the AI sector as a coherent economic entity yields preliminary estimates of nominal AI GDP at approximately $250 billion in 2025, growing at roughly 2,600 percent per year in quality-adjusted real terms.
- National economic statistics accounts were not designed to track this kind of activity. Statistics agencies should begin developing AI-focused satellite accounts now, before the measurement gap becomes a policy gap.

Here is [much more from Anton Korinek and Patrick McKelvey](https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2026/where-ai-gdp-statistics). Via the excellent [Samir Varma](https://x.com/samirvarma).