The framing is by a pajeet, but he's making complete sense and see Musk's reply; some emphasis added:
Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamath
As someone with a portfolio of __energized__ land assets here is what I am seeing:
[Saw an item on Amazon, a hyperscaler, having billions in GPUs collecting dust waiting for power to run them. See second link.]
1. Neoclouds are disorganized and poorly capitalized. Some are definitely better than others however.
[Brave AI: "specialized AI-first cloud infrastructure providers that focus exclusively on delivering GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) to power artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads."]
2. Hyperscalers are intractable, bureaucratic organizations that take 3 months to do an NDA and want 18mo escrow periods. We built our portfolio by competing against these terms because of our speed and simplicity. The more future assets orgs like ours win, the bigger the problem for the hyperscalers downstream (see 3).
3. There are delays in the existing pipeline that will catch people off guard in 2027. Hyperscalers will (obviously) react by focusing on their own internal compute needs over any third party. If the third party is a model company, they will tell them to go through their model router where they will also take a non-trivial vig. Them telling Ant they have no compute for them (rumored in Ant’s S-1) if true is a huge tell that this is already happening.
[Model: grind on data. Inference: generate results for users.]
All of this is to say that it does look like there will be a lot of partially stranded compute and compute sitting in inventory in 2027 than is currently forecasted. This is bought and paid for but effectively underearning (below total cost of capital) or collecting dust. We see this as true for everyone - model companies, hyperscalers, neoclouds except ONE (you can guess which one).
[SpaceX of course.]
This dislocation will benefit two kinds of orgs: the non-bureaucratic big scalers who can build industrial scale quickly and the nimble, well capitalized players feeding them.
2027 will be a turbulent year because it will clear out a bunch of wrong/bad bets. It will also be a consolidation year for a few.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to @Yuchenj_UW
I think we’re going to see a lot of stranded compute in partially complete data centers
[The reply:]
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
[Can't sell shovels you don't have in a gold rush....]
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114434646914068862
https://search.brave.com/search?q=amazon+gpus+collecting+dust
Sinistra delenda est.
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