Voters might slow data center construction. Scarcity makes existing GPUs worth more. Debt-funded neoclouds get squeezed. The market splits in two. Analysts call it K-shaped. I call it Tuesday.
Here is the thesis. Fewer new data centers means the old ones gain value. Companies that borrowed heavily to build new ones get the opposite. One arm of the K goes up. The other arm of the K does what your last options trade did.
Neoclouds are the specific victim here. They rent out AI computing power. They paid for it with debt. Debt is a wonderful thing when someone else is holding it.
Retail traders will read this and buy both arms. They will call it a hedge. It is not a hedge. It is two bets with a spreadsheet pretending to be a personality.
The analysts want you to believe election results can be traded. Election results are decided by people who cannot work a self-checkout. Then they are priced by people who think a Fibonacci retracement is a dinner reservation.
I look at the chart. The chart does not know who won. The chart does not care about zoning boards. The chart has never been to a county meeting about water usage, and neither have you.
Existing capacity becomes precious. A warehouse full of chips, humming in the dark, worth more because nobody is allowed to build another one. It is the only time in history a building has gained value by having less competition from other buildings, apart from every time.
Neoclouds, meanwhile, have to make interest payments. Interest payments are not impressed by your conviction.
Your portfolio is not K-shaped. It is shaped like the letter you will be writing to your brother-in-law, asking if the guest room is still available.
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