we are currently in a massive debt cycle so analyzing this situation with a fundemental lens is correct but useless.
everything you said about the unit economics about the labs are correct and all the smart money knows it. imo what you’re missing is a macro framework. the hyperscalers are currently able to issue long bonds with a lower yield than the UST. They can issue hundreds of
billions or trillions in the near future if the bond market continue to give them money. The margin bubble with the labs can continue indefinitely until this the yields blow out.
The USG have been playing this game for a long time with deficits blowing out and stock market hitting all the time highs. Now that the hyperscalers have replaced the role of UST and carrying out the same “ponzi”. The hyperscalers are the new sovereign debt issuers. The cloud margins are effectively an income tax paid to the hyperscalers. Trump buying INTC with UST is the same as hyperscalers buying into the labs to pump the valuation.
Now the question is, is the bond market correct? What if the bond market is pricing in massive deflation due to AGI, then all the behaviors we see with the hyperscalers are completely rational.
And what breaks this cycle of infinite debt issuance? Inflation breaking out again due to oil shocks or war. The FOMO propaganda strategy employed by the labs stop working and token maxing stops. So far we don’t see anything of these two happening so the music goes on.
@kunchenguid@wait_theres_mor@deedydas models have massive amount of knowledge inside, the point is they don’t need to look things up which they already have, the same cannot be said for a human