Dillon Valdez
Growth Investor, Public Portfolio Journal
Selective bank lending limits bubble risk in the AI build-out, while early agent adoption supports lasting demand. Banks are cautious about neocloud loans; Meta's Muse reached more than 10 million people in about six weeks, and demand still outruns supply. Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron look priced for a sharp slowdown around 2029, but the application layer is just beginning. This cycle looks much longer than the market prices, even if it is cyclical. x.com
Continuing hyperscaler AI spending and strong earnings do not signal the slowdown being priced into the AI trade. Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron are profitable, while reported guidance is strong and forward P/Es are moderate or low compared with 2021's 50x next-twelve-month EV/sales valuations. The selloff looks more like deleveraging than deteriorating fundamentals; the reports do not justify the multiple compression. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com
Financing announcements point to more accelerator demand, supporting semiconductors. About $200bn in announced Meta, Anthropic/Broadcom and SpaceX/Nvidia financing likely drives $400bn in XPU purchases. Data centers burn cash until lit, then cash flow 20-40% annually; AI spend rising from 0.1% to 0.5-1% of current payroll could balance the buildout if agents replace roles. Sustainable token demand is the bet, but smaller local models are the bigger risk, though not an immediate concern. x.com … Show more
AI security rules could shift frontier inference into monitored data centers, lifting demand for AMD and Nvidia chips and Micron and SanDisk memory. Agents attacked 400+ banks; US labs cut off abusive users, unlike downloaded open weights. Licensing is a forecast, and these four look undervalued at today's closes. Meta lists $356B in future leases and $455B in other commitments, mostly cloud capacity such as CoreWeave and Nebius plus equipment; those recipients are being sold off. x.com x.com
AI cloud infrastructure stocks risk falling together because neocloud providers depend on the same debt funding. Musk says debt markets have almost shut off financing for companies dependent on AI data-center revenue, though he is a chip buyer and balance sheets differ; Nebius remains up over the year. x.com
Strong AI demand and hyperscaler spending make the selloff a mid-cycle correction despite neocloud financing stress. Widening CCC spreads expose leveraged firms to higher borrowing costs; US competition with China supports AI buildout. The base case is a bottom in roughly 5-7 days, then stabilization and eventually a broader reversal, though some projects may fail and valuations compress. IREN, Cipher, Nebius, Applied Digital, Micron, AMD, ASML and Intel are worth gradually accumulating. x.com
Lenders committing billions to neoclouds weaken the case that expansion will be starved of affordable capital. IREN secured $363M of GPU-backed financing and Nebius a $3.5B credit facility. Longer-lived, redeployable Nvidia GPUs are becoming more acceptable collateral; customer prepayments and cash flow from new contracts offer other funding sources as compute demand outpaces supply. x.com
Financing risk makes AI-linked growth stocks unattractive to add here. Much of the money reaching suppliers such as Nvidia and Micron is financed, so harder funding would limit spending on chips, compute and memory. The buildout is not over, but stock prices could remain suppressed until it slows. A significant drawdown would make adding appealing; for many high-beta names with weak fundamentals and balance sheets, the highs look to be in. x.com
Semiconductors could stay undersupplied for a long time as more capable AI per dollar creates more uses and drives compute demand. Micron and NVIDIA trade at low forward P/Es because investors fear peak cyclical earnings, yet current earnings show no slowdown. Shortages may worsen as AI adoption spreads, though the industry could remain cyclical; a reversal of the forced rollover trade is hoped for, not assured. x.com x.com x.com
AI agents' productivity over human labor should lift GPU demand and rates for neoclouds. The bottom looks in for CoreWeave, Nebius, Boost Run, Sharon AI and IREN. Gavin Baker says token prices can fall as revenue per GPU rises; paraphrasing Elon, even $38 per GPU-hour can pay off. CoreWeave's five-year fixed contracts may lag current rates; Boost Run has less capacity locked in. If SpaceX takes more growth, slower cash burn could rerate neoclouds, though smaller customers may pay less. x.com … Show more
Financing strain threatens smaller AI-related plays. Elon Musk says debt markets have nearly closed to firms without substantial non-AI-data-center revenue. Neoclouds, energy, HVAC, electronics and builders will be a much smaller field in a year; its 'guppy' plays can be shorted here toward zero. CoreWeave, IREN and Vertiv look troubled, perhaps Nebius; Ouster, Applied Digital, Ultra Clean, Cipher Digital, WhiteFiber, TeraWulf and IPG Photonics too. x.com x.com
A rising value of compute per watt should benefit AI cloud, chip, connectivity and power suppliers. Elon Musk says that value will rise over time. Nebius has Microsoft and Meta deals; Marvell benefits from custom silicon demand; Credo connects GPUs; Vistra has long-term nuclear supply deals with Amazon and Meta; Nokia's Nvidia partnership could help it capture data-center networking growth. x.com x.com
