• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yes, but Oracle’s stock skyrocketed based on the unprofitable OpenAI promising to buy >100B worth of AI data center space from Oracle. Nvidia stock also surged on the news, since Oracle builds those data centers with Nvidia chips

    Obviously OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay Oracle themselves, so Nvidia has helpfully given them the money

    So now we have an incredibly large cyclic corporate dependency of money from Nvidia -> OpenAI -> Oracle, then back to Nvidia. Definitely not a financial disaster waiting to happen

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      They haven’t even spent the fucking money yet. It’s just announcements of intentions, with a fraction of that $100B in outlays. Nobody seems to want to say who gets to be the one holding the $100B at the end of it, either.

      Presumably they’ll all just do a stock swap and tell their vendors “We’re good for it, check’s in the mail”?