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Weekly · 2026-10-17 · 41 episodes
Amazon CEO gives checkable operator numbers: AWS AI run-rate over $25B, 2026 capacity sold out and 2027 largely sold, server payback about 3 years; firsthand and material to AMZN and the AI supply chain.
Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO)
25:06AWS capacity for 2026 is sold out, 2027 is largely sold out and a good chunk of 2028 is sold out, apart from a portion held back for on-demand use.
AMZN novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3 Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO)
13:09AWS's AI business has passed $25 billion in annual run rate within the first three years of the generative AI wave.
AMZN novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3 Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO)
15:05Amazon buys servers and networking gear only a few months ahead of demand and expects them to break even in about three years with 5 to 6 year useful lives, while data centers need about two years of lead time, creating free cash flow headwinds during the build.
AMZN novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3
Intel's CTO says global tool stock allows only ~2x leading-edge wafers, and Intel would invest more; firsthand exec detail on High-NA/backside power vs TSMC and Terafab. Few hard figures.
guest (Intel CTO Pushkar Ranade)
50:40Intel's CTO says that with the world's existing chipmaking tools leading-edge wafer output could roughly double but not rise tenfold.
INTC novelty 3/3 · verifiable 1/3 guest (Intel CTO Pushkar Ranade)
1:08:47Intel's CTO says that, knowing today's demand, Intel would have invested more a year ago and will now invest more.
INTC novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3 guest (Chris Auth, Intel process development)
15:04Intel's process lead says backside power lets 14A use High-NA EUV in a single pass, while TSMC without backside power would still need double-patterned EUV.
CEO-level firsthand data: Gemini 4 Argon did about 25 trillion tokens in 72 hours (3x Gemini 3.0), Google capacity-constrained, committed-revenue contracts behind capex, Waymo above 500k paid rides a week.
In the first 72 hours after launch Gemini 4 Argon processed almost 25 trillion tokens, about 3x what Gemini 3.0 did, and Google is capacity constrained on the launch.
GOOGL novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3 Alphabet went free-cash-flow negative this summer for the first time since its IPO (host's framing; Pichai clarified the term but did not dispute it).
GOOGL novelty 2/3 · verifiable 3/3 Pichai says Google is signing durable long-term contracts with committed revenue, alongside demand signals from its own use, as part of the case for its heavy compute investment.
GOOGL novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3
SemiAnalysis raises its 2027 data-center forecast above 43 GW, maps 400+ moratoriums touching only ~10% of capacity, and details Oracle New Mexico, Childress, and 2028 oversupply risk.
SemiAnalysis is raising its 2027 data-center build forecast from 43 GW (article title says 50 GW in a single year), against critics who say only about 25 GW will be built.
novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3
guest analyst (SemiAnalysis)
7:19SemiAnalysis mapped over 400 data-center moratoriums against sites it tracks and found only about 10% of capacity was affected.
novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3
guest analyst (SemiAnalysis)
13:47Oracle's New Mexico campus has over a gigawatt of IT capacity under construction, but SemiAnalysis assumes a slow ramp because of power delivery problems, so little counts in 2027.
ORCL novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3
CEO firsthand with dated numbers: Boom's first natural gas turbine ships for test this week, 2 GW/yr factory early 2027, targets $5-10B revenue by 2030, vertically integrated blade foundry.
Boom is building a 2 gigawatt-per-year turbine factory operating early 2027, producing about a quarter gigawatt next year, a gigawatt in 2028 and 2 gigawatts in 2029.
Boom Supersonic novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3
Boom says its baseline plan makes it a $5 to $10 billion revenue business by 2030 while filling less than one-tenth of the turbine shortfall.
Boom Supersonic novelty 3/3 · verifiable 1/3
Boom has built its first natural gas turbine core for AI data centers, which ships to its test site the next day with a goal of running by Thanksgiving.
Boom Supersonic novelty 2/3 · verifiable 2/3
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