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Artificial Intelligence

Less model hype, more physical reality: power, land, silicon, and the balance sheets funding them. The AI story is an infrastructure story.

AI & ComputeRCR–2026–016

The AI Capex Supercycle

Hyperscaler capital spending has reached a scale with only two real precedents: the railroads and the telecom bubble. What the money is buying, how it's financed, and the specific things that would end it.

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–015

Enterprise AI Finally Arrived

After two years of demos and disappointment, enterprise AI crossed from pilots into production. Where the ROI actually shows up, what the adoption data says, and why 'arrived' doesn't mean 'everywhere.'

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–014

OpenAI's Next Chapter

OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history and committed to compute spending measured in the hundreds of billions. A clear-eyed look at the new structure, the new money, and the gap between the two.

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–013

AI Infrastructure Winners

A systems map of who structurally benefits from the AI buildout — utilities, equipment makers, landowners, and lenders — and where competition burns the profits away. Not stock picks. A map.

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–012

Why AI Needs More Than GPUs

The AI supply chain is a convoy that moves at the speed of its slowest truck — and the slowest trucks aren't GPUs. A tour of the quiet bottlenecks: HBM, advanced packaging, liquid cooling, and power equipment.

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–011

Electricity Is the New AI Bottleneck

Chips are no longer the scarce resource in AI. Electrons are. Inside the nuclear restarts, gas turbine backlogs, and utility forecasts that now decide who gets to train the next model.

28 JUL 2026 · 5 min
AI & ComputeRCR–2026–002

The Data-Center Land Grab

The AI race won't be won by whoever builds the smartest model. It'll be won by whoever locked up electricity years before they needed it.

22 JUL 2026 · 5 min
The Morning Signal

The briefing, before it's obvious.

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