Accenture sells AI transformation to thousands of clients while quietly telling its own employees they get a fraction of what some were already spending. The internal memo reveals a tension at the heart of every major consulting firm racing to profit from AI.
They’ve made several hundred billion off it though. Spending 100 billion to keep the hype train going is peanuts if it’s making you over 100 billion a year in high-margin extra revenue.
And much of that investment has been promises of future servers, etc. A lot of deals with dollar values attached to them take place with not nearly as many dollars changing hands.