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Cheap Money Is the New Moat in AI Infrastructure
AI infrastructure debt is splitting in two: big tech-backed bonds face rising rates, while smaller borrowers face default risk. The gap is becoming a…
Oct 18
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Chris Zeoli
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How Nvidia Franchised the Cloud
Nvidia gives away the software to run an inference cloud. Franchises bring the GPUs and the data center. This unbundled the Big 3 clouds.
Sep 28
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Chris Zeoli
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The GPU Depreciation Curve
Old GPUs are holding their value. New ones command a scarcity premium. Memory explains why.
Sep 25
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Chris Zeoli
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How Long Does a GPU Last?
Seven to nine years physically. Six on the books. The bears say three. The whole argument is about the wrong variable.
Sep 21
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Chris Zeoli
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The 10 Companies AI Can't Scale Without
Ten chokepoints in the AI supply chain, from the lithography tool to the landlord. Twelve tickers, $12.5 trillion of market cap, and every supply-relief…
Sep 14
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Chris Zeoli
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How the GPU Became Collateral
Three years ago nobody would lend billions against GPUs. Now the paper is rated A3 and sits in insurance portfolios. The breakthrough was structuring…
Sep 10
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Chris Zeoli
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How Much Does an NVIDIA NVL72 Cost?
The short answer, from recent purchase orders and analyst teardowns: ~$5.0M to buy a GB300 NVL72, ~$5.7M to deploy, $240–410K a year to run, and…
Aug 31
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Chris Zeoli
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Why the Best GPU Doesn't Always Win
The same GPU got 19x faster between February and May. The same die does 4.4x more work in one rack than in another. FLOPS explain none of it.
Aug 28
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Chris Zeoli
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Who Makes Money When Inference Gets 10x Cheaper?
A layer-by-layer map of where the dollars land when the price of intelligence collapses.
Aug 19
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Chris Zeoli
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Why AI Is a Storage Workload
The GPU isn’t the bottleneck anymore — data movement is. Inference runs on accumulated state, and that state needs somewhere to live.
Aug 8
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Chris Zeoli
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The AI Memory Stack
AI's memory problem isn't buying more HBM. It's managing a full hierarchy — GPU cache to cold storage — with a different winner at every tier.
Aug 4
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Chris Zeoli
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What a Gigawatt Costs
$37.6 billion, six and a half years, and 57 cents of every dollar that never reaches a chip company. What the AI buildout is physically made of, and…
Jul 27
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Chris Zeoli
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