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Dylan Patel

Dylan Patel is named in 2 Parts of The Buildout, most recently Part 17: The Guarantee Has No Date. Argued in Part 14 (The bill has moved to debt), Part 14 (Voices that cross sides), Part 17 (Voices that cross sides).

In 2 parts of The Buildout: Part 17, Part 14 · Updated Oct 22, 2026

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  1. Part 17 · Voices that cross sidesAug 25, 2026

    Because all compute has to be financed and most compute is contracted well before it is built, players like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and SpaceX that can build without first finding a customer control the situation, whereas a smaller cloud must…

    The Guarantee Has No Date Who is on each side

  2. Part 17 · Voices that cross sidesAug 25, 2026

    He thinks Meta, trading at roughly $1.5 trillion, is silly and worth way more than that in a logical sense, given its cash flows, the infrastructure it is hoarding, and the compute it will be able to sell at high dollar-per-watt rates, either via…

    The Guarantee Has No Date Who is on each side

  3. Part 14 · The bill has moved to debtAug 25, 2026

    Hyperscalers including Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta funded more than half of compute growth so far but now do not generate cash, spending everything on CapEx and raising debt on top, so for a roughly $3 or $4 trillion 2028 CapEx level the…

    The Cash Arrives Unevenly Who is on each side

  4. Part 14 · The bill has moved to debtAug 25, 2026

    Headline AI CapEx figures of $40-50 billion cover only critical IT such as servers, networking, fiber, transceivers and optics, not the data center shells or power plants, which must be built ahead of time, so a 100-gigawatt-a-year build is much…

    The Cash Arrives Unevenly Who is on each side

  5. Part 14 · Voices that cross sidesAug 25, 2026

    Labs have not yet reached the point where their own cash flows can fund the scale of CapEx required, since labs are projected to generate hundreds of billions in revenue next year while total CapEx across the compute supply chain will be well north…

    The Cash Arrives Unevenly Who is on each side

  6. Part 14 · Voices that cross sidesAug 25, 2026

    His current modeling has $5 trillion of credit-funded and $6 trillion of cash-funded infrastructure investment through 2029, and this is not enough compute relative to projected AI demand growth, so revenue per megawatt has to keep rising.

    The Cash Arrives Unevenly Who is on each side

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