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    Adam Kay
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    not to be outdone:
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    It was probable that once the original Stargate project was made public, that one of the other big players would counter and a DC war ensued. First Xai, then Meta/Msft and Open are all locked in a race for AGI or ASI, artificial super intelligence. We haven't heard what Google are doing but it's quite possible they will just rent capacity from ORCL or someone else.

    Altman has also made no secret that he expects to spend multi trillions(just OAI) over the next 5-10 years. I don't doubt it. Well, and here is my point. It doesn't matter if it's 2 or 5T. As I have suggested before, capacity is what matters and that takes time. I don't see much improvement on a 50% annual capacity expansion (geometric average which equate 8X in 5 years)nor do we need it. But it reinforces(is hard proof!) that when someone points out a delay in a. project as bad, it's irrelevant because every single chip TSMC can pump out has 5 or 10 buyers. And this is why companies like Nvidia can be picky when choosing who receives their technology. Using too many AMD chips-back in line, funding uncertain, no thanks. Too many ASICs or developing your own, limited GPUs. Things may change in years but for the next several the facts are 'if Nvidia build it, they will come'-and take it all.

    Late next year we will see racks rated at 500KW, certainly by early 27 and in 2028 Feynman drops and we will see 1 Megawatt racks. That's enough juice to run 1,000 houses, in 1 rack. I think power capacity will need radical change. And change it will be and very fast.

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      Aren't navitas sorting out the power issues?

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        Adam Kay
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        They produce more powerful efficient systems but when you say 'sorting out'. A good analogy would be an ant on a beach moving the sand. They are a tiny company; $80M annual revenue.

        I would think the problem will only be solved via Nuclear in the next decade. After that Fusion has potential and I understand AI is/will play a big role in cracking it, likely at least 10-20 years away

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          I'm old enough to remember when nvda were a similar size hawking graphics cards, remember someone who went by the name of compo on hemscott ranting on about them and taketwo, hopefully he still has a lot, most likely not though.

          Anyway their tie up with nvda piqued my interest, they have results on 4th August, dump adobe and stick the proceeds into nvts?

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            Adam Kay
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            Adobe-Ive mentioned here has already been significantly reduced. I can't give an opinion on the other stock because we don't hold it. Suffice to say it could do anything. It's a meme-stock and is being driven by emotion, not fundamentals. It's almost 30% short.

            You only need to look at other forums to see the pitfalls playing out in real time.

            It’s like watching a blindfolded dart thrower aim for a bullseye… in a tornado

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              Adam Kay
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              Charles tweets Elon. One criticism is that Charles Liang doesn't shout about their achievements. You literally can't keep Michael Dell quiet and it is a pet peeve of mine. Is this a change in policy? Btw this isn't a hint. This is what is called a BIM. A Building Information Model. And as you can see this is only a part of it. SM manufacture the cooling tower you seee in the background. I believe these racks are being installed as we speak. The total installation is around 20X bigger than this image. We do not know for certain how much of it is SM work but it's at least 50% and likely more because it's 100% DLC.

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                Adam Kay
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                I read that SM installed all the cabling on this project. 15,200 miles of high end fibre and the big metal box in the background, the Cooling Tower-400 of those, in fact 100% of the entire project is SM DLC-2-even Dells racks are cooled by SM. And people are wondering why they need to raise cash-they've been carrying this cost around since the beginning of the year. Next quarter it all drops-in 🙂

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                  Glad to hear it, I can see good things ahead once they emerge from the 'woods' 😊

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                    All👂 5 August

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                      a sneak peak at the cabling-interesting, perhaps only because it cost somewhere between 1.2-1.5 billion and it's difficult to comprehend 'thousands of miles of the stuff' Whoever installed it, made some nice margin for sure!

                      Imagine calling the supplier hi we need some cable-the good stuff. OK how many metres do you want , umm 24 million metres (snigger). Alrighty then that'll be 1.1 billion-how will you be paying?

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                        A big move up in the price today ….looking very positive

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                          @Adam-Kay: don’t say a word!! 😄

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                            Too late! Well it was up earlier, but down a bit now, but I totally expected that - people taking profits.

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