Artificial intelligence is arguably the most captivating—and significant—investing theme of the last several years. Multiple tailwinds are pointing to why AI stocks should be central to any portfolio. First, consider that Grand View Research believes that the global AI market size was $279.2 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $1.81 trillion by 2030. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 35.9%. Dell’Oro Group projects that spending on data center infrastructure—including hardware, software, network ...