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Passive investing turned everyone into a tech investor without anyone asking permission. That’s the uncomfortable reality your pension statement won’t spell out. Concentration risk isn’t theoretical — it’s sitting inside the funds you forgot you owned, quietly indexed to the same seven companies the ECB just flagged as the core of a potential AI Infrastructure financial stability problem.

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[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From the cited report:

This post explains why a correction should be expected even if current valuations are rational...

And from the linked article:

When investors price in excessively steep growth paths, even strong actual AI performance can disappoint. Markets aren’t betting on good — they’re betting on perfect.

So unless straining all NAND production out to late 2027 for chips that haven't been made for data centers that haven't been built, to train on data that doesn't exist, is perfect in it's returns, there will be a much more drastic "correction" than dotcom. All while as the linked article points out:

Unlike 2001, central banks don’t have much runway to cut rates. Fiscal space across the euro area is already constrained by high public debt and existing spending commitments. The usual cushions are thin. That’s the detail that elevates this beyond routine caution — when the correction arrives, policymakers will have fewer options to slow the fall than they did during the dot-com bust.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are making the chips, building the data centers and collecting the data. None of those are the missing piece. The missing piece is being able to actually turn a profit from that entire pipeline.

[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I agree. My point more was that this is the level of investment, and that these have to have perfect returns to be rational.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are they rationally including replacing GPUs every three years? I mean, how many years before they even pay off the GPUs they have now?

[–] sudo@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah when will those expired GPUs hit the resell market? Or are they going to grapes of wrath them.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The productive factories, the people in white coveralls in their perfectly-controlled environments and the chips, 16GB of VRAM just waiting for a charge. And children dying of boredom must play games on their phones because profit can not be taken from a GPU. And parents must hear daily, "I want to play Valorant" and "Skyrim is boring" and yet not be able to do anything--because the GPUs must rot, must be forced to rot.

[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well they are, rationally, assuming they are gonna make "a genie that can grant any wish", so they will simply ask how to solve the next round of funding issues.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

"As you can clearly see on the chart of our earnings projections, our revenue doubles on January 18th, 2027." "Yes, I can see that quite clearly, thank you."