Moody’s says ‘unprecedented’ AI spending threatens credit quality of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and others
The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-dollar annual clip is eroding the free cash flow and increasing balance-sheet risk at so-called hyperscalers, warned Moody’s Ratings.
“Previously, these companies relied on asset-light structures centered on software, intellectual property, and scalable cloud services that required modest capital investment,” Moody’s said in a note. “The transition from asset-light to asset-heavy models requires unprecedented levels of investment and capital raising.”
The moves “threaten credit quality” for the six companies tracked by Moody’s, which include Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle and CoreWeave, according to the report.
The ratings firm projects that capital expenditures — or capex, which are investment for physical assets like data centers — will hit $785 billion in 2026 before reaching about $1 trillion next year. (CNBC)
@HedgieMarkets The funniest part of the whole thing is that;
some people would rather believe that the movie company bought all the tickets for The Odyssey than admit that the demand for the chips came from the chip company itself.
@BeigeFrequency@elyphaon The scene where people are forced to walk on the bridge, then fall to their deaths is clearly taken from the Japanese film Kaiji.
In the original work, the bridge was electrified, preventing people from slowly climbing across; this "degraded version" obviously lacks this detail.
To put this insane run into perspective, in just 11 days, THE ODYSSEY ($639M) has already surpassed the entire worldwide box office run of a film like SUPERMAN ($615M), which was considered a success.
@drinkingwiskey 対照的に、すべての芸術家は人間です。彼らは人間の視覚システムを使って絵を描き、問題点を修正できます。(nonsense😂)
Deep learningにはそれができません、すべての画像は単なる「データ」であり、人間の目に何が不自然に見えるのかを知ることも、それをどう正すべきかを知ることもできない
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@TrueAIHound I believe this is the core reason why "AI images" always have a "strange feeling".
Humans rely on their own visual nerve when drawing, and therefore modify the artwork accordingly.
But "AI" can't do this; because there is absolutely no "red" at the pixel level; ...
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@TrueAIHound I realized the picture should be of a person, but I didn't know who it was; the in the instant I blinked, I noticed it was Lincoln.
It was interesting because images become blurry when you blink, which made me recognize him.
@MattBinder A survey conducted by "The Literary Digest" 90 years ago encountered the same problem.
Furthermore, YouTube has long since removed the "dislike" button, so this image is fundamentally fake.