NY's data center moratorium is symbolic noise; AI compute demand is too large and global for any state to stop
I would like to see them TRY STOP THIS
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I would like to see them TRY STOP THIS
here are the AI compute projections from our new Tokenomics Model
Meta is the only hyperscaler/neolab on track to be world class at all three and therefore has the best chance at catching up with Anthropic/OpenAI
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Memory prices have gone completely parabolic, with DDR5 tracking a 5x jump in a single year as AI servers gobble up every chip available.
And yet, despite the dot com boom and bust the Magnificent 7 now have a market cap 1.8x that of Europe. A similar issue is arising with AI where the macroeconomic data is not yet equipped to capture the value produced by AI
This captured AI will only exist where companies have genuine market power, and can protect prices in the face of declining costs of production.
Any reasonable measure of the macro economy must in some way account for this or the AI boom may read to the data as an AI bust.
As demand skyrockets, prices are going up for everything on the supply side. Whether it be the NGPUs, their prices are going up. In addition, their useful life is extending.
You see ASML is completely sold out. And they need Carl Zeiss to expand faster. Everywhere along the chain, everyone's either sold out and margins are going up, or they're getting prepayments.
Dario used to gloat about how OpenAI was being too aggressive on compute and Anthropic was more sensible in their scaling. And now Anthropic is like, fuck, we should have... I wish we had a lot more compute.
Memory can only grow capacity low double-digit percentages a year, right? 20%, 30% a year. Even less for NAND, a little bit higher for DRAM... the true incremental supply doesn't come till '28, which is a very unique thing.
I think logic also has humongous capacity problems. TSMC just had their earnings. They keep upping CapEx... they're not raising prices fast because they're good people, it seems like. You know, single-digit price increases instead of, you know, triple-digit price increases like the memory guys have had.
the semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment supply chain is one that I still think is, it's gone up a lot, but it's still very underappreciated.
even if you assume all incremental compute they've gotten has gone towards inference, their margins are at a floor of 72%... at the start of the year... 30-something percent gross margins. Where on earth does a business like this grow margins like that?
all the slop code you and I are generating that is now running on some Vercel instance... all of that requires CPU. And so CPUs are completely sold out, and demand is skyrocketing there.
I think in the next 6 to 18 months, we'll start seeing real breakthroughs in robotics that enable few-shot learning, i.e., there's a pre-trained robot model... You showed a few examples and it's able to do it.
public market sentiment has turned increasingly negative on names like CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN, and these companies’ share prices are currently at the low end of the 6-12mth trading range.
memory pricing, across both DRAM and NAND pricing, went from rising aggressively for several quarters, to going completely parabolic, with LPDDR5 and DDR5 contract prices tracking toward ~4x and ~5x year-on-year increases respectively in 1Q26 based on our Memory Model .
Anthropic’s ARR has more than tripled in just a single quarter from $9B at the end of last year to over $30 today.
public market sentiment has turned increasingly negative on names like CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN, and these companies’ share prices are currently at the low end of the 6-12mth trading range.
Despite clear evidence of tightening supply and rising prices - conditions that should directly benefit Neocloud providers through margin expansion and stronger arguments for higher useful lives - public market sentiment has turned increasingly negative on names like CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN, and these companies’ share prices are currently at the low end of the 6-12mth trading range.
TSMC is not raising prices, but memory vendors are just like sort of to some extent raising a lot of price, right? So they're going to double or triple price again. But then they're also signing these long-term deals.
by '28, '29, the bottleneck falls to the lowest rung on the supply chain, which is ASML, right? ASML makes the world's most complicated machine. I.e., an EUV tool... currently they can make about 70. Next year they'll get to 80.
over the last 3 years, TSMC has done $100 billion of CapEx... Nvidia alone is turning some small fraction of $100 billion in CapEx... into $160 billion in a single year.
they become a less and less relevant customer. And they also will just cut their orders because things in the supply chain are kicking them out, whether it be, packaging or materials or DRAM or NAND.
NVIDIA is now the largest customer at TSMC, and NVIDIA is the largest customer at SK Hynix, the largest memory manufacturer
the main factor is going to be for reducing the number of people is modularizing things and making them in factories in Asia... these areas are going to ship more and more built-out sections of the data center
I think at least this year we're going to see margins for the model vendors go up a lot, right? Because they're so capacity constrained, they have to destroy demand
at some point China is able to scale past us if AI takes longer to get to certain capability levels than... the vast majority of your guests on this podcast believe.
electrician wages probably double or triple again, right? And there's going to be a lot of new people entering that field and there's going to be a ton of people who make money.
Google had Nano Banana and Gemini 3, which caused their user metrics to skyrocket. And leadership at Google was like, oh... we have to double compute every... 6 months
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