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Tyler Crowe

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

This is probably like, yeah, let's get a little bit of a cash cushion, get ahead of it.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

We've got a decently priced stock right now, and this will be a good time to do it.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

We'll get Berkshire involved.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

It'll make it a little bit easier.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And they've got things like that big anthropic deal that they signed last year.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

So there is demand for what they want to build.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I feel like that's a great question.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I don't have a great answer to.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I'm kind of throwing out into the wind here.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

But that's the case with all of AI, right?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

We can see some tangible benefits.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I mean, here at Motley Fool, using Claude and ChatGPT and several other products much more prominently in our kind of everyday workflows.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

So we see the use cases.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

However, the economics of what those businesses are doing is a little bit questionable.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

For the hyperscalers, one thing that you can at least rely on to a certain degree is companies like Anthropic are pledging large amounts of money to them for renting this stuff.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And just to use the SpaceX example that you were mentioning earlier –

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

As part of the S1 for SpaceX, that deal actually said that Anthropic is going to pay them, I think it's $1.25 billion a month for compute power.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And so it shows there is a monetizable way of doing this.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And it's not just some, hey, we don't really know what it's going to work with.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

There are actual revenue numbers you can put behind the compute.