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Gavin Baker states that rising hardware prices will force the largest tech companies to control AI infrastructure spending. Memory bottlenecks push the cost of gigawatt data centers so high that economics now dictate the pace of AI expansion.
Public markets offer a longer time horizon and higher tolerance for capital-intensive infrastructure investments than the venture ecosystem typically assumes.
“I do think the public market has a much greater tolerance um for investment and a much longer time horizon than a lot of people in the venture ecosystem give it credit for.”
From SpaceX's IPO: Terrestrial Compute Drives Real Value Now
Comparing enterprise value to net property, plant, and equipment highlights a shift in how investors assess companies holding physical infrastructure assets.
“EV to net PP&E multiple is in an interesting place.”
From Meta's AI Pivot: From Token Maxing to Min-Maxing Compute Costs
DRAM capacity and bandwidth set the baseline for AI model performance. As memory shortages raise prices, building gigawatt data centers becomes expensive enough to pressure the budgets of hyperscalers.
“DRAM is the most important bottleneck because memory capacity and bandwidth are foundational to the performance of every AI model…”
“…it is probably going to inflate the costs of building a gigawatt data center to the point where even for the hyperscalers, economics matter.”
Companies like SpaceX secure $45 billion AI infrastructure deals by deploying physical compute data centers faster and at a lower cost than competitors.
“They build data centers dramatically faster than anyone else at a lower cost.”
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