• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Do you think they can maintain that for another 5 years? Another 20?

    I think expecting NVIDIA to fail inside the next five years is a wild reach. You might expect Oracle to take haircut in the next five years, based on their atrocious debt load. But even then, the idea that they’ll miss a credit payment?

    Twenty years out, these firms are an even safer bet. Long term demand for compute and hosting services is only going up. And they’re so heavily consolidated. Too Big To Fail in every sense of the word. Are you going to bet against JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs on the eve of the financial crisis, even? Twenty years later, how are they doing?

    Are 5 AI companies providing more value than every other tech company in the last 50 years?

    It’s not a question of value, it’s a question of earnings growth. Will these top 5 AI companies be seeing stratospheric earnings growth in the next ten years? All signs point to “Yes”. The race to cement these data center footprints is a scramble for limited resources. The Capex budgets won’t be inflated to this degree forever.

    Dismissing them for their rapid expansion would be like betting against New York and Chicago real estate markets because you didn’t trust skyscrapers to be profitable in another 20 years. Or betting against U.S. Steel and Standard Oil at the apex of WW2, because the resource demand from the conflict can’t go on forever.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I’m not saying they will fail I’m saying they will not maintain their rate of growth. Very, very different things but i guess you can pretend i said something else and argue against that or whatever idk dude lol

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I’m not saying they will fail I’m saying they will not maintain their rate of growth.

        They’ll hit a saturation point eventually, sure. But demand for capacity continues to outstrip supply.