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Capital spending by major cloud providers on data centers, chips, and power infrastructure to build out AI computing capacity.
Oracle delivered more than 300,000 GPUs and 850MW of capacity in a single quarter, and its CFO says the vast majority of last quarter's new contracts came on prepay or bring-your-own-hardware terms that need no capital from Oracle.
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PIMCO's credit note says spread dispersion along the AI financing chain stays limited while the risk at each rung differs sharply, and it expects a wider set of issuers and structures to force the differentiation later.
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About $1.2 trillion of data-center leases that have not begun and $1.9 trillion of chip and equipment purchase agreements sit in the footnotes of nine tech firms whose capex over the past year was around $600 billion.
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Twelve Korean power equipment firms will meet about 50 American buyers on a KOTRA-organised trip that drew 10 firms and 12 buyers last year, with a Silicon Valley leg added to the Dallas itinerary.
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The warrants strike at $161.26, about $4bn if all are taken up, and they vest partly against as much as $60bn of chip purchases, with Qualcomm paying for the second source here.
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Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are now paying for data centres with bonds, equity and asset-manager ventures. S&P says leverage is not blowing up; Moody's says the buildout already threatens credit quality.
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Contract builders for Microsoft, Google and Oracle have told customers to expect more than 15% on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems. On a flat budget, that is roughly 13% less compute.
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A presentation transcript published by InfoQ argues you cannot reason about inference economics without the chips, the power and the measured behaviour of the provider you rented from.
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A Guardian investigation puts numbers on a gap every buyer of cloud capacity should assume exists: announced gigawatts and installed accelerators are not the same asset.
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Noreva expects US gas above $10 per million BTU at some hubs, against just under $3 at Henry Hub today. Fuel is roughly half the cost of power from a large plant.
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