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  "generatedAt": "2026-10-22T01:47:05Z",
  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
  "kind": "company",
  "slug": "meta",
  "name": "Meta",
  "ticker": "META",
  "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/companies/meta/",
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  "summary": "Meta is named in 10 Parts of The Buildout, most recently Part 17: The Guarantee Has No Date.",
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      "part": 4,
      "headline": "AI Spending Has Met Its First Real Bill",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
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    {
      "part": 5,
      "headline": "OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Business",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
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    {
      "part": 6,
      "headline": "Power Doesn’t Depreciate. Its Premium Moves.",
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    {
      "part": 7,
      "headline": "The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-fed-hiked-the-long-end-kept-climbing/"
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    {
      "part": 8,
      "headline": "AI Lenders Are Financing the End of Scarcity",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-scarcity-is-the-collateral/"
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    {
      "part": 9,
      "headline": "Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.",
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    {
      "part": 10,
      "headline": "The Bubble Is in the Denominator",
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    {
      "part": 11,
      "headline": "The Backlog Is Not the Quarter",
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    {
      "part": 14,
      "headline": "The Cash Arrives Unevenly",
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    },
    {
      "part": 17,
      "headline": "The Guarantee Has No Date",
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      "value": "18%",
      "label": "Meta stock gain",
      "context": "Closing prices, Financial Modeling Prep, Sep 8-Oct 2, 2026",
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      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
    },
    {
      "value": "$28B",
      "label": "Meta's residual-value guarantee on its data-center venture",
      "context": "Meta filing, as read by Michael Burry, Sep 24, 2026; $10.8 billion moved to restricted cash",
      "part": 11,
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-backlog-is-not-the-quarter/"
    },
    {
      "value": "96.1%",
      "label": "Capital spending per dollar of operating cash, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, second quarter of 2026",
      "context": "SEC XBRL filings, read Oct 12, 2026; DeepStack calculation; 64.8% across 2025",
      "part": 14,
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-cash-arrives-unevenly/"
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    {
      "value": "$1.12 trillion",
      "label": "Leases signed but not yet begun at Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet, mid-2026",
      "context": "DeepStack's sum of the five filings at June 30, 2026 (Oracle at Aug 31, 2026), SEC EDGAR; Moody's counted $662 billion at the end of 2025",
      "part": 17,
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-guarantee-has-no-date/"
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    {
      "value": "$28 billion",
      "label": "Approximate threshold of Meta's residual value guarantees on the Hyperion venture, June 30, 2026, with no liability recorded",
      "context": "Meta Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, SEC EDGAR; inside a $46.03 billion maximum exposure that also counts equity, funding and lease commitments",
      "part": 17,
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-guarantee-has-no-date/"
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      "part": 4,
      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "Meta was 22 percent below, Oracle 54 percent below.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
    },
    {
      "part": 4,
      "section": "Defense has a case",
      "excerpt": "That is the market’s split in one glance: Nvidia and Micron have been paid for scarcity; Alphabet, Meta and Oracle have been charged for financing.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
    },
    {
      "part": 4,
      "section": "Arithmetic sets the test",
      "excerpt": "Prof G Markets tallied the immediate bill: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta spent $165 billion on capital spending in three months, up 87 percent from a year earlier and 393 percent from three years earlier.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
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    {
      "part": 5,
      "section": "Cheap intelligence arrives",
      "excerpt": "Deepvalue Capital says Alibaba’s models passed 3bn downloads, ahead of Meta and Google, while compute stays tight and the price per token keeps falling.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
    },
    {
      "part": 6,
      "section": "Politics sets the price",
      "excerpt": "Loudoun County, Virginia used data-center taxes for two schools, a park and a recreation center costing $102 million; a Louisiana parish is using taxes from a new Meta facility for $51,000 teacher bonuses.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/power-doesnt-depreciate/"
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    {
      "part": 7,
      "section": "AI meets the rate",
      "excerpt": "Two days after the Fed moved, CleanSpark, a bitcoin miner building a data center for Meta, sold $2.3 billion of five-year notes at 8.25% and drew about $10 billion in orders.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-fed-hiked-the-long-end-kept-climbing/"
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    {
      "part": 8,
      "section": "A shortage with a price",
      "excerpt": "A developer with Meta or Alphabet as tenant can pay up.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-scarcity-is-the-collateral/"
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    {
      "part": 8,
      "section": "Cash, or a loop",
      "excerpt": "Ed Zitron said Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have together spent over $1 trillion on Nvidia GPUs, mostly to win the business of OpenAI and Anthropic, two companies they also help fund and that both lose heavily.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-scarcity-is-the-collateral/"
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    {
      "part": 8,
      "section": "What lenders actually own",
      "excerpt": "Meta’s Louisiana campus shows how the structure works.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-scarcity-is-the-collateral/"
    },
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      "part": 9,
      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "On September 8, Meta released Muse, an assistant designed to run errands rather than answer questions.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
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    {
      "part": 9,
      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "Meta responded with distribution.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
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    {
      "part": 9,
      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "Mark Zuckerberg said Meta would keep a small cut of each purchase.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
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      "claim": "Meta's data center JV structure shows that the parties closest to the assets do not believe the value will hold: lenders would not bear residual value risk without protection, so Meta issued a residual value guarantee of up to $28 billion on…",
      "date": "2026-09-24",
      "url": "https://michaeljburry.substack.com/p/capital-cycle-iq-and-the-forensic",
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