10 Charts That Explain 2025
From a data center frenzy to hype for AI agents, big promises and expectations shaped tech in 2025—sometimes ending in stumbles.
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech.
As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its name shorthand for the next big app.
