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Lou Whiteman

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

This is a real weird world, Travis.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

You were talking about it off-air that, if anything, a lot of the components, a lot of the inputs for these things are going up now because of scarcity.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

That's supply and demand one-on-one.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

Arguably, they're getting less bang for their buck

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

from the spending they're doing, yet they are having trouble charging for it.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

John's right, the pie could go up.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

It could be that it just eats all of software.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

It could be that we begin to lay off 50%, 75% of our employees because we're spending on that too, so all of this money is freed up.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

We don't have to get into whether or not that's a good

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

version of the future or not.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

But the other answer here, maybe it is that, yes, this is right, the SaaS apocalypse is going to happen.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

But the answer could be that it's like one of those bad movie scenes, collectively, everybody's just in a race and it ends with a huge cliff.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

Let's be fair, it's usually one or two sectors that are leading the way.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

It's very rare for everything to be up at once.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

Whether it's masking or normal, it's good.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

It's economic activity, that's what we need.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

I would note, though, I'm still cautious.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

Travis, I agree with you.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Hyperscalers Are Going Into Hyperdrive

It might be too early to see the AI effects, so I don't want to be dismissive of AI just because we're not seeing it yet.