@natty_ary07@WMitchell618@Holy_Helicity Wes is the king of nonsense and can’t string together a coherent sentence. Remember last year when we were going to run out of coal and he forgot more about this market than everyone else combined knew?
Interesting... JPM from their industrials conference: "Bottlenecks in the last 12 months have shifted from broad power/cooling/labor constraints to episodic components (e.g., HV breakers), manageable but rotating. Rapid hardware turnover, which saw four generations in quick succession, has limited standardization and slowed commoditization, pushing a 'put fewer things in the building' approach to compress schedules and cut costs... Supply chain pinch points are rotating even as broader power availability improves, and capacity roadmaps point to a sustained ramp"
BNP (Moses. S) feedback re: ERCOT Market Summit Feedback - "The tonal shift was sharp vs. the Feb. 2025 conference. A year ago, it was 'well, of course the CDR report expecting +50 GW load growth by 2030 is wrong, but how wrong?' – and now, as we discuss later on, most sit between 50 and 100+ GW as a baseline load growth interconnected-by-2030 view"
My takeaways from the Eaton call:
-Data center demand hitting escape velocity: Q4 orders up ~200% YoY with sales up ~40%; order mix shifted to 50/50 cloud/AI in 2025 versus mostly cloud previously, with AI loads increasing dollar-per-megawatt content; hyperscalers reconfirmed 2026 CapEx plans; multi-tenant and new cloud players "never seen so active"
-Mega project pipeline provides multi-year visibility: $3 trillion mega project backlog up 30% YoY across 866 tracked projects; data centers represent 54% of YTD announcements; U.S. Dodge data center construction backlog now equals 11 years at 2025 build rates (206 GW); negotiations pipeline hit ~$10B in 2025, up 4x since 2019 at 26% CAGR; these projects convert to revenue over 3-5 years
-Portfolio reshaping toward AI/power infrastructure: Mobility spin-off removes ~$3B lower-growth business; acquired Fibrebond, Resilient Power (800V DC technology), Ultra PCS, pending Boyd Thermal for liquid cooling ($1.7B 2026 revenue expected); dollar-per-megawatt content rising from $2.9M to $3.4M post-Boyd
-Liquid cooling strategy focused on "inner loop" near the chip: Boyd acquisition brings 500 engineers and positions Eaton in cold plates, CDUs, and manifolds protecting revenue-generating assets; NVIDIA's hotter-running chips don't negatively impact inner loop = actually require more sophisticated components; early technical engagement across all chip platforms and hyperscaler roadmaps; partnering with chiller specialists on "outer loop" rather than competing directly
Bulls: AI acceleration/takeoff is here, arms race and Google is full systems go to win this market taking others head on
Bears: unsustainable rate of capex, fcf to zero, awful returns on all of this as capital floods the space
Which camp will be louder in the coming weeks? Market will decide