Unlike the dotcom era, infrastructure is being built by mature highly profitable companies with broad product portfolios to exploit future trends and needs... Data-centres or even their power/water contracts seem like something with a lot of value even if we take a cynical view of LLMs profitability.

Am I overstating the case? My understanding is that a data center tends to be ‘purpose built’, so they may need a gutting for repurposing, but assuming a lot of ‘sobering up’ I’m envisioning several giant cloud providers with excess capacity and a scaling potential.

Be it Jevon’s paradox sparked by cheap compute, another huge tech fad, or a ML breakthrough that brings another kind of model to the forefront, we’re likely to want a lot of compute at some point. It doesn’t seem like bad long-term positioning for the tech giants or investors.