AI Infrastructure: Neocloud Rents & the Revenue Gap
AI compute spot rents are running at 4x the hurdle rate, with ZeroHedge framing SpaceX as an emerging neocloud and highlighting a widening gap between AI infrastructure costs and actual AI revenues.
What we know
An account on X published a multi-part thread on $50B/gigawatt neocloud rents, spotlighting SpaceX as a neocloud player and illustrating the compute cost curve — here — alongside a fractional revenue circular banking model here. Separately, another account on X endorsed Patrick Collison's view that more intelligence in the economy is net positive, and another account on X noted that even AI insiders failed to anticipate where LLMs would go.
By the Global Eye 24 desk, with AI assistance. Updated as the story develops. Spot an error? Write to corrections@globaleye24.com.