AI Infrastructure track record
Every call as published, never edited after the fact. Each is scored held or missed once the outcome is known.
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ALL AI INFRASTRUCTURE JUDGMENTS, NEWEST FIRST
- The AI chip budget is splitting away from one vendor. Marvell lifted its custom chip target to $12B, and Nvidia backed a fabric built to link rival chips.OPEN
- Compute is moving onto credit that public markets cannot see. Broadcom and Oracle sought chip financing off their customers' books as Firmus pulled its IPO.OPEN
- Public investors are starting to price neocloud risk that private rounds ignore. Firmus cut its IPO price about 18% on weak demand as Lambda raises $4B privately.HELD
- AI campuses are now planned around their own power plant, and the build runs a decade. AWS filed for 36 data centers on a 4.5GW gas plant, phased to 2036.OPEN
- AI servers are shipping faster than the US can power them. Foxconn revenue jumped 47% as Goldman cut its 2027 US data center capacity view by 5GW.OPEN
- Grid permits, not chips, now set when AI backlog becomes revenue. Oracle and OpenAI's $15B Wisconsin campus likely slips to mid 2028 on power approval.OPEN
- Local consent is now a gating input for AI capacity. Amazon dropped data center NDAs and pledged $1B to host towns as over 100 moratoriums advance.OPEN
- Cloud lock-in is becoming a regulated cost in Europe. Brussels plans to name AWS and Azure gatekeepers in November, opening their AI demand to rivals.OPEN
- Chip vendors are becoming lenders to their biggest buyers. Broadcom's reported $42B convertible for Anthropic ties future chip sales to vendor credit.OPEN
- Custom chips are becoming a royalty business. Amazon's $1B+ license with Synopsys moves value toward design IP as hyperscalers cut reliance on merchant GPUs.OPEN
- Permits, not chips, now decide where AI capacity lands. Sydney lost a 90MW campus to policy risk the same week Meta signed for GPU space in Indonesia.OPEN
- AI cloud backlogs now lean on buyers that cannot yet fund them. A leaked Anthropic prospectus shows $518B of compute obligations against about $20B of cash.OPEN
- Permits, not tenant demand, now set AI campus credit risk. Oracle's force majeure on Project Jupiter pushes delay cost onto developers and their lenders.OPEN
- Model labs now buy compute with a claim on the supplier. Anthropic's warrant for up to 5% of Akamai makes a CDN carry AI capex before revenue arrives.OPEN
- Neocloud capital is pricing backlog that has no power yet. Nscale's $3.36B round funds negative gross margin while Northern Virginia narrows where campuses can go.OPEN
- Megacampus delay risk is moving onto developers and lenders. Oracle's force majeure notice on Jupiter shows who pays when the power arrives late.OPEN
- New AI capacity money is going where power is easy to get. This week's largest commitments landed in the Gulf and China while Texas froze 49.8 GW.OPEN
- Permission to add power, not chip supply, is now the binding limit on US AI capacity growth.OPEN