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The AI Infrastructure Buildout: A Structural Reading of the Numbers, and the Case Against That Reading

Opinion and scenario analysis. Two branches, both steelmanned. No prediction is being made in either direction. What everyone agrees on Three numbers are independently reported by multiple credit-research and market-data sources and can be treated as established for the purpose of this discussion. One. Hyperscaler capital spending in 2026 is on track for something like […]

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