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| | | | | | Every technological revolution eventually hits a wall. Not a failure — a bottleneck. The constraint that separates the dreamers from the builders, the demos from the deployments. | For AI, that wall has been infrastructure. Not intelligence. Not algorithms. Not even data. It's been the sheer physical limitation of getting enough compute to where it needs to be, fast enough, at scale. Training a single large language model can consume as much energy as a small city uses in a year. Inference — running those models in production — creates even more pressure, because it happens continuously, in real time, billions of times per day. And the hardware required to support all of this? It's been in short supply for years. |
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| | | | | Data centers across the United States will need 22% more grid power by the end of 2025, with demand expected to nearly triple by 2030. Hyperscale operators increased capital spending to $127 billion in Q2 2025 alone — a 72% rise year-over-year — driven almost entirely by AI projects. Microsoft is allocating $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build AI-enabled data centers. The $500 billion Stargate project plans to deliver 10 gigawatts of computing power across five sites. Yet even under optimistic scenarios, the sector faces an $800 billion annual funding gap. Four core bottlenecks threaten to slow everything down: energy supply, construction capacity, availability of GPUs, and shortages in essential equipment like switchgear and cooling systems. | This is the chokepoint. The moment when demand outpaces the infrastructure to deliver it. And for years, that's where the industry has been stuck. | Then came October 28, 2025. Washington, D.C. NVIDIA GTC. Jensen Huang took the stage and announced what may be the most significant infrastructure breakthrough in AI history. |
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| | | | | | Huang didn't just unveil new chips. He revealed a complete blueprint for the future. The Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona — 6 million units shipped over the past four quarters, with 14 million more expected over the next five quarters. NVIDIA reached a $5 trillion market valuation just three months after hitting $4 trillion, making it the first company to cross that threshold. Huang projected $500 billion in combined revenue from GPU sales across Blackwell and next year's Rubin chip generations. | But the real shift wasn't hardware. It was architecture. NVIDIA introduced Omniverse DSX — a comprehensive blueprint for designing and operating 100-megawatt to multi-gigawatt AI factories. These aren't incremental upgrades. They're industrial-scale compute facilities validated at NVIDIA's AI Factory Research Center in Manassas, Virginia. With DSX, partners around the world can build and bring up AI infrastructure faster than ever. NVIDIA also announced partnerships with Oracle to build seven supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy, with the largest system featuring 100,000 Blackwell AI chips. Nokia received a $1 billion investment to develop telecommunications equipment incorporating NVIDIA chips for 5G and 6G networks. | The announcement included quantum computing integration. NVIDIA unveiled NVQLink, a high-speed interconnect enabling quantum computer control, calibration, and error correction while connecting quantum processing units to GPU supercomputers for hybrid simulations. The architecture is designed to scale from today's hundreds of qubits to future systems with hundreds of thousands of qubits. This convergence of quantum and AI computing represents a fundamental shift in how the world computes. | Capital spending by major cloud computing companies — Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave — is projected to reach $632 billion by 2027. Morgan Stanley analysts estimated total hyperscaler capital expenditures would grow 24% next year to nearly $550 billion, while Citi raised its forecast to $490 billion for 2026. That's not hype. That's infrastructure at scale |
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| | | | | | | | | | | The bottleneck hasn't disappeared. But it's moved. The constraint is no longer whether AI infrastructure can be built. It's whether the companies building it can move fast enough to capitalize on it. | Innovation rarely announces itself twice. The investors who recognized NVIDIA at $0.40 per share before it climbed 30,000% understood something most people didn't — they saw the signal before it became consensus. The same pattern is repeating now. Not with NVIDIA itself, but with the ecosystem around it. The power partners. The infrastructure suppliers. The companies positioned at the intersections of compute, energy, and deployment. | Timing is the only real edge left. Conviction comes later. Hindsight always rewards discipline. But by then, the opportunity is priced in. | Warmly,
Claire West
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| ✳️ A Note from ClaireI'm always refining these letters — testing tone, pacing, and topics — and I'd love your quick rating on how they've been lately. | | (Thank you for reading and for helping me make each post stronger.) |
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