[Bain Warns of AI Investment Return Pressure: Industry Revenue Must Reach $6 Trillion by 2031] According to Jintou News, Bain & Company stated that the global artificial intelligence industry needs to achieve $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the massive capital investments currently being made in building global data centers. In its annual Global Technology Report released on Tuesday, Bain noted that existing AI services targeting consumers and enterprises are expected to contribute at most $1.8 trillion of this revenue, leaving the industry needing to generate approximately $4.2 trillion in additional revenue. Bain believes this gap could potentially be filled by emerging fields such as automation equipment and robotics, as well as application scenarios like drug development, mental health, and energy production. David Crawford, Bain's Global Head of Technology, Media, and Telecommunications and the report's lead author, stated: 'The AI industry needs to usher in a wave of innovation far surpassing that of the mobile internet and cloud computing era.'