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3 Dec 2025

$IBM CEO says that at today’s costs it takes about $80B to build & fill a 1 GW AI data center

So the ~100 GW of announced capacity implies roughly $8T of capex & “no way you’re going to get a return on that,” since you’d need “about $800B of profit just to pay for the interest” Source: Wall St Engine

3 Dec 2025

Overall Tech credit Spreads continue to trade wide to the overall IG credit market...

Source: zerohedge

26 Nov 2025

🚀 Big Tech Is Carrying the Entire Stock Market — Literally

Alphabet ($GOOGL) has been the single biggest driver of the S&P 500 this year… accounting for 19.4% of the index’s entire YTD gain. That’s what happens when you add $1.3 trillion in market cap in 11 months. Right behind it? Nvidia ($NVDA): +16.0% contribution (+$1.05T) Broadcom ($AVGO): +$520B Microsoft ($MSFT): +$380B Together with the rest of the mega-cap giants, the top 10 stocks now make up 59.4% of the S&P 500’s total gain this year. Which means the other 490 companies combined contributed just 40.6%. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, econovisuals

31 Oct 2025

Samsung bets big on AI 🇰🇷 Korean tech giant

Samsung just announced plans to buy and deploy 50,000 Nvidia GPUs — a massive move aimed at supercharging its chip manufacturing for mobile devices and robotics. 💡 The partnership is another win for Nvidia, whose GPUs remain the gold standard for building and deploying advanced AI systems. 🔧 Samsung also confirmed it’s working with Nvidia to optimize its 4th-gen HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) for next-generation AI chips — a move that could reshape the global AI hardware landscape. 👉 The AI arms race just got another heavyweight upgrade.

30 Oct 2025

Cisco peaked at 4% of U.S. GDP.

Nvidia is currently 16% of U.S. GDP. Source: Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian

30 Oct 2025

Very important read-through of yesterday's mega cap tech earnings ➡️

Hyperscaler CapEx remains sky-high: • $GOOGL: FY $91–93B (vs $85B est) • $MSFT: Q1 $34.9B (vs $30B est) • $META: Expects higher CapEx in 2026 Note that Google raises 2025 Capex for the second time this year: “With the growth across our business and demand from Cloud customers, we now expect 2025 capital expenditures to be in a range of $91 billion to $93 billion." BULLISH 🚀 Source: Investing visuals @InvestingVisual Michael Horner @michaelbhorner

22 Oct 2025

Europe is basically not participating in chips manufacturing, even worse with rare earths.

Should there be a geopolitical event in Asia, what will happen to the European economy ??? Source: Michel A,Arouet

20 Oct 2025

Technology continues to lead

Source: J.C. Parets

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