“It’s also clear that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX, and every neocloud are purchasing NVIDIA GPUs tens of billions at a time under the implicit knowledge that it will take years to build the capacity and connect the power to them, creating what amounts to the largest pre-order campaign in the history of capitalism, but also a material misrepresentation of the current AI buildout.”
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It is clear that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX and every neocloud are buying NVIDIA GPUs tens of billions at a time, implicitly knowing it will take years to build the capacity and connect power, which amounts to the largest pre-order campaign in the history of capitalism and a material misrepresentation of the current AI buildout.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Where're All The AI Chips?, paragraph 124.
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- it's also clear (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
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- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, Where're All The AI Chips?
It’s also clear that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX, and every neocloud are purchasing NVIDIA GPUs tens of billions at a time under the implicit knowledge that it will take years to build the capacity and connect the power to them, creating what amounts to the largest pre-order campaign in the history of capitalism, but also a material misrepresentation of the current AI buildout.
- Where
- paragraph 124
- Published
- 2026-09-22
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-wherere-all-the-ai-chips-4a7fa8-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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