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[Alten Capital](https://alten.capital/blog/author/alten)  November 6, 2025

# Labor, Capex, and AI

As AI and robotics continue to be adopted in businesses, some implications emerge that impact the long-standing economic balance of those nations, internally, and externally with trade partners.

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Agriculture evolved from a labor-intensive work to an almost fully roboticized function in farms. This labor change also impacts farms’ P&L from an OpEx-heavy to a CapEx-heavy financial profile. Industrial factories have also experienced a similar trend, with automation penetrating manufacturing processes and increasing margins.

We are also seeing extremely high amounts of capital flowing to datacenter buildup and AI infrastructure construction, with a forecasted impact of improving worker productivity via AI (in white collar jobs in this case). Another OpEx to CapEx with an impact in the years to come.

Low-cost labor relevance, primarily how developing nations have earned their spot in the world economy, may continue to see deteriorating value in the eyes of the developed nation buyers (wallet owners), if buyers can replace these providers with the use of IP, AI, and automation to streamline processes for their customers and remain relevant in their markets.

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