Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is Bloomberg Tech. Coming up, the Nasdaq 100 falls into correction territory as big tech stocks keep fooling the Iran war, rattling investor confidence. Plus, Meta is set to fund the construction of seven new natural gas-fired energy plants. fuel its Hyperion data center in Louisiana. And Anthropic is said to be looking to IPO as soon as October.
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Chapter 2: How is the Iran war impacting global markets and tech stocks?
It's anticipated to be offline in some regard for four to six months. Industry estimates are that we have about three months of inventory, right? So you do some back of the napkin math and you realize that the question really isn't, will there be an impact? There will be an impact. When will it hit very likely Q2 and to what extent?
That really depends on the continued path that this conflict takes and if there is future escalation or hopefully de-escalation.
away from, I guess, the short term in the war in Iran, that there probably still is a debate around the health of the global economy, which in the technology context has just been underpinned by massive commitments to spend, the impact on raw materials, labor. How close are you tracking right now the consistency of capital expenditures that relate to data center in particular?
Chapter 3: What is Meta's plan for natural gas-fired energy plants in Louisiana?
You know, I would say, right, the question we have to ask ourselves is what is being impacted by this conflict? The cost side of the balance sheet is what's being impacted, the cost to power these AI data centers, for example, the cost to produce these chips. Now, the second question is, will these hyperscalers continue to meet demand? The answer, in my opinion, absolutely yes.
So where do we see the impact? We see the impact on margin compression. That seems like almost a given. And when do we see it? We see it in Q2.
Natalie, people, at least on this program, have been split on drawing parallels between this economic shock that is a war in Iran and some of what we saw in the early part of the COVID era in its impact in supply chain shipping, for example. Are you seeing any similarities or parallels? Or can you tell me why this time for the tech sector in particular, it is different?
In one way, it's different because we aren't seeing a total shutdown of our supply chain network. We are seeing a very large impact in the Strait of Hormuz. We have an ongoing impact in the Red Sea. But the good news is we can still get goods from A to B. The bad news is that to do that, we add 3,500 to 4,000 nautical miles.
and about $1 to $2.5 million in excess fuel costs, depending on vessel size. And so we can continue to meet demand. It's just the fact that the supply chain environment is quite stressed, and we're very likely to see an elevated cost implication. Whereas in COVID, right, even the ability to meet demand was quite questionable due to the Broad Bay shutdown.
Nadi Gallagher aboard. It's great to have you back on the show. And it's difficult to look at the impact of what's happening from the technology sector to the technology sector with everything happening with the war in Iran. Coming up on the show, Anthropic buys an October IPO. We have the Bloomberg reporting next. This is Bloomberg Tech.
Anthropic, the maker of the popular Claude chatbot, is said to be looking to IPO as soon as October. That's according to sources. Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz, part of the team that broke the story. It's one of the three that we've been waiting for. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. But I found this interesting. Give us some of the detail, what we're hearing from sources.
October is an interesting timeline. October is an interesting timeline. It also would be right before midterm elections, but it certainly is one of those IPO windows that we typically see getting hit. We're looking at normally April, May, and then post-Labor-Day are top of mind.
The thing that's top of mind for Anthropic and OpenAI from our sourcing is that it's a bit of a race to try to go public first. Both are ambitiously trying to push ahead and forge ahead. We've seen and we've reported a number of updates, whether it's talking to bankers, talking to lawyers,
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Chapter 4: What does the construction of the Hyperion data center mean for Meta?
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Last week, we released a national AI framework, and the idea is to create one rulebook for AI in the US. The problem that we're seeing right now is that you've got 50 different states regulating this in 50 different ways, and it's creating a patchwork of regulation that's difficult for our innovators to comply with. So what the president has called for is one rulebook.
What we did is, and I work with Michael Kratios at OSTP and other folks at the White House, we looked at all the different things that the states were doing, and we tried to find some common denominators. And then we published that in a set of principles that we're calling the National AI Framework, and we're calling on Congress to act on that framework.
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Chapter 5: How is the Nasdaq 100 affected by geopolitical tensions?
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Terrific stuff. Thank you very much. It's been a rollercoaster week for memory and storage stocks. After Google unveiled an AI breakthrough that can cut the memory requirement to run an LLM by a factor of six, the market reaction came in waves. First, everything in memory sold off around the world.
Then investors started to realize this might not be doomsday for all of them.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of rising oil prices on the tech sector?
Let's refresh your memories for a moment. If storage for AI data is like a warehouse, NAND and Flash are the long-term holding area. But high bandwidth memory, on the other hand, is the workbench, the loading dock. This is how it was summed up by Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence of how the market is digesting this breakthrough in memory.
Typically, when something like this happens, everyone would implement those sort of efficiencies. Remember DeepSeq? Everyone pivoted to a reasoning model within the next six months, and guess what? The demand actually took off because everyone implemented that, and it helped drive more usage. So if anything, I think it should drive more usage, and the effect of that would be more memory demand.
So this isn't the AI trade breaking. It's investors getting much more informed, but more selective about where the demand actually is. Worth going back and reading that on the Bloomberg Terminal. Now coming up, we're going to hear from Coastal Ventures co-founder Vinod Khosla on his take on the AI race between the US and China. That conversation next. This is Bloomberg Tech.
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