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#Wall Street

2 articles

Feb 22, 2026 • 13 min read

The Silicon Debt Trap: Nvidia Funds Its Own Sales

Apollo just lent $7 billion so xAI could lease Nvidia chips from a shell company where Nvidia is the anchor investor. The circular financing loop powering the AI boom looks exactly like the structures that blew up Wall Street in 2008.

#Nvidia #Apollo Global #xAI

A sprawling, ultra-modern liquid-cooled data center with glowing blue coolant pipes, standing in stark contrast next to a decaying, abandoned first-generation air-cooled data center with rusted massive ventilation fans.

Feb 19, 2026 • 7 min read

The AI Subprime Crisis: Funding Obsolete Data Centers

We are so distracted by the AI chip wars that we have forgotten about the buildings housing them. First-generation AI data centers built in 2023 are already becoming physically obsolete, creating a $40 billion real estate timebomb that retail investors are currently holding.

#Data Centers #Wall Street #Retail Investors