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Travis Hoium

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

But also, they have this business, which is serving third parties, that's growing at 48% in an incredibly high margin.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

So is this an area where they're all sort of doing the rational thing by going, all right, we're going to go all in.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

And the worst thing that can happen to us as a hyperscale, as a huge company, is, you know what, in 2027, we'll pull back.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

We won't spend $180 billion.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

We'll just spend $100 billion on CapEx.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

So the margin could potentially get competed away over time.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

All right, let's get to the big question that I think we're all asking.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

And that's the bubble question, the overspending question.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

Lou, I've always heard about bubbles being talked about as, you know what, it's not really a bubble until we start adding debt to the equation.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

It's not really a bubble until no one thinks it's a bubble.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

It seems like we're there now.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

Not only are the hyperscalers now adding debt, you have companies like the Neoclouds that have a ton of debt.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

You have Oracle, which now has over $100 billion worth of debt.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

They were supposed to be one of the winners of the OpenAI build-out.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

There's that debt.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

There's that leverage there.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

There's also...

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

you know, plenty of people who don't think this is a bubble.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

I think there's a lot of people right now with this amount of spending.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Big Tech’s $650 Billion Bet on AI

Hey, if these companies are going to keep growing their spending, how can this possibly be a bubble?