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jdm2212yesterday at 8:53 PM1 replyview on HN

The original claim was "Their debt load and infrastructure costs compared to their relatively meager earnings..." which is just obviously not applicable to Google and NVIDIA, which both crank out more than $100 billion per year in profits. They can literally take on almost a trillion dollars each in debt to finance data centers and still be in reasonably good financial shape.

OpenAI and Anthropic are not very profitable (yet!), but rely mostly on equity financing, not debt. So no debt load issue there either.


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cdrnsfyesterday at 9:11 PM

Oh, wonderful! OpenAI and Anthropic's structural inability to earn a return for there investors should be no problem.

What is NVIDIA's outlook should their customers' funding run out? Or what's the long tail outlook on Google killing its search product?

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