Amazon plans to invest the equivalent of a France-England tunnel in AI – every month.

Cost of selected projects and indicators compared to planned AI investments for 2026. Shaded areas indicate a min-max range.

All costs are inflation-adjusted for 2026 if not stated otherwise in the sources. Inspiration for this chart came from this comment on Hacker News.

Sources AI investments of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta: Yahoo! Finance
Cost of the Channel Tunnel between France and England: Eurostar
Cost of the Gotthard Tunnel: Wikipedia
GDP of Bahamas: Worldometer – data for 2025
2008 U.S. bank bailout: U.S. Department of the Treasury – net cost of TARP programs after considering repayments, sales, interest expense, etc. Number for 2023.
GDP of Monaco: World Bank – data for 2024
Cost of ending hunger: World Economic Forum – the shaded area shows what's needed on top to ensure the drop in hunger is sustainable with investments in e.g. irrigation, infrastructure and facilities.
Cost of all public transit in the U.S.: Estimated based on numbers from Congress
Aid for Ukraine: Trebesch et al. (2023) "The Ukraine Support Tracker” Kiel WP – total financial, humanitarian and miliary aid by the U.S. and the European Union between January 24, 2022, and December 31, 2025, averaged per month
Cost of the Burj Khalifa: Wikipedia
NASA budget: American Astronomical Society
Cost of the Wembley Stadium: BBC
Cost of making buses free in New York City: City & State
Chart: Lisa Charlotte MuthCreated with Datawrapper