A Former CIA Advisor Says This Tech Boom Is Already Bigger Than the Internet Ever Was

Jim Rickards spent years studying threats to America's financial system for the CIA and Pentagon. Now he says one industry is consuming more capital and energy than the dot-com boom ever did. Washington, D.C., June 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- During the dot-com boom, telecom companies spent nearly half a trillion dollars laying 80 million miles of fiber-optic cable across the country, enough to circle the globe more than 3,200 times. An estimated 85% of it would eventually go unused. Today, it'