๐จ 4 companies are about to spend $725 billion on AI in a single year.
That number is larger than the GDP of most countries on earth.
Amazon is committing $200 billion, Microsoft $190 billion, Google $190 billion, and Meta $145 billion. All four raised their guidance this quarter, and none of them are slowing down.
Microsoft's CFO said the company expects to remain capacity constrained through all of 2026, even after spending $190 billion.
They simply cannot build fast enough to meet demand.
Microsoft attributed $25 billion of its budget purely to rising memory chip costs. Meta said the same thing, pointing to higher component pricing, particularly memory, alongside rising costs for land, power, and skilled workers.
Data centers now consume 70% of the world's entire memory output.
Microsoft's AI business is now running at an annualized revenue rate of $37 billion, up 123% year over year. Amazon Web Services posted its fastest growth rate in 15 quarters at 28%.
The money being spent is starting to come back.
Amazon is looking at negative free cash flow of nearly $17 billion this year as a result of this spending.
These companies are burning cash at historic rates because they believe whoever builds the most infrastructure today controls the AI economy tomorrow.
This is exactly why memory stocks like Micron, Sandisk, and SK Hynix are at all time highs right now. The $725 billion has to flow somewhere, and it is flowing directly into chips and memory.
THIS COULD BE THE LARGEST INSIDER TRADING SCANDAL IN OIL HISTORY.
According to The Kobeissi Letter, about $920 million in crude oil shorts were placed at 3:40 AM ET today, 70 minutes before any news went live.
TIMELINE:
3:40 AM ET: 10,000 contracts ($920M) shorted oil with no news.
4:50 AM ET: Axios reported a "14-point deal" to end the Iran war.
7:00 AM ET: Oil crashed 12%, handing those shorts a $125 million profit.
Whistleblowers now claim news was coordinated with insiders, leaking order info up to 30 minutes before the reports went live. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and analysts like Mohammad Marandi are calling this "war/peace" rhetoric a cover for massive insider trading.
And this was not the first time. Since March, more than $3.5 billion worth of perfectly timed oil shorts have been placed before major Iran war headlines.
A $500-$580M short appeared before Trump delayed strikes on Iran, a $950M position was entered before the two-week ceasefire announcement, a $760M short came minutes before Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, and another $430M bearish trade appeared before the ceasefire extension.
Every single trade happened before the public got the news, and every single headline crashed oil prices immediately after.