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What's NVIDIA spending its money on?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
It's spending its money on chips.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And TSMC, all the things that go into those chips, most of that capital, I think, is leaving the U.S.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
and going to like Asia where a lot of those chips are manufactured.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So this is like the kind of the flow of capital.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And it all starts that the only thing you really have to understand here is like that this first step is the demand.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And where is that coming from?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
I think every time a new model comes out, we just, you know, mythos came out, kind of blew everyone's expectations away.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And then that maybe creates even more demand for the next new model.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So as long as that stays there.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
in this sort of FOMO-driven race to implement these solutions internally within these large businesses, as long as that's there and they feel like they're getting ROI on that, that I think this can continue
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but it's sort of a Goldilocks type setup where like, what if there's a, you know, we know there's other risks in the economy.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
What if China comes, we know China's building out lots of these models.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
What if they introduce a model that just is way cheaper, you know, to use than some of the stuff that's already out there.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So, you know, you just got to kind of think about like, what would break the demand?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Is there some change in the technology that could potentially come?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Is there some unexpected thing with,
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
return on investment that people aren't projecting, that would, you know, potentially reduce some of that demand at step one.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And then that's what would make the sort of CapEx investment and everything else look like it was getting frothy and maybe overbuilt.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
I don't think we have signs of it being overbuilt just yet because the demand's there.