The Compute Bill Comes Due
The AI build-out has been financed as if compute were a fixed asset that lasts forever. Depreciation schedules suggest otherwise.
The Technology desk covers the infrastructure layer of the modern economy — compute, models, chips, and platforms — with an eye for the trade-offs the launch copy leaves out.
The AI build-out has been financed as if compute were a fixed asset that lasts forever. Depreciation schedules suggest otherwise.
The hyperscalers compete fiercely on everything except the thing that now constrains them all: where to find the next gigawatt.
Frontier models are converging in capability and diverging in price toward zero. Defensibility has quietly moved somewhere else.
The chip supply chain is not decoupling so much as duplicating — at enormous cost, and with no guarantee the copies will ever run at scale.