NVIDIA's Biggest Customers Just Lost $1 Trillion in One Week
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$1 trillion in market cap gone.
That's how much Nvidia's four biggest
investors lost over the past week. Not
because their products failed, not
because of a recession, but these four
companies each announced how much money
they were planning to light on fire in
this insane crusade for more AI
infrastructure and AI chips. Wall Street
saw that in the earnings report and they
said, "Doesn't sound like a good play to
us." Let's break it down. Over the past
two weeks, these four companies
announced that they'd be spending about
690 billion in capex in 2026 for AI
infrastructure and chips. Let me say
that number again. 690 billion spend in
2026 for AI chips in one year. And if
you've lost track where almost $700
billion is going, let's break down a
highle overview for you here. So
Microsoft announced that they're going
to be spending 120 billion or more in
fiscal 2026 on AI infrastructure. They
dropped $ 37.5 billion in just a single
quarter as per their last earnings. And
they still have an $80 billion backlog
of unfulfilled Azure orders because they
don't have enough money to turn the
power on. Alphabet doubled down. I just
did a video on that a couple of days
ago. They're announcing guidance for
$180 billion in spend this year. And
when I say double down, I mean that
quite literally. That's about double
what they spent on AI infrastructure
last year. So this is quite unusual. It
is like they are preparing for a war,
not a product launch. Amazon wins the
trophy, though. $200 billion in spend
announced this is robotics, AI,
infrastructure, data centers, even
satellites. That's 50% year-over-year
growth from what they spent last year
and 200 billion. I mean, it's the it's
larger than the GDP of a lot of
countries. Meta announces between 115
and 135 billion. They're building a one
gigawatt factory in Ohio somewhere. I
don't even know what a gigawatt is.
That's like back to the future numbers.
Zuck is calling it Meta Super
Intelligence Labs. We'll throw a fifth
one on there uh just as an addin. It's
kind of like your your baker's dozen.
You get an extra in the bag. Oracle
chipping in 50 billion, you know, chump
change. So that's around 700 billion
from all of these companies, which
again, this is like an imaginary amount
of money. Like I have no idea like if
you had $700 billion in $100 bills, like
how much space would that even take up?
It's an incomprehensible amount of
money. So you think you're thinking like
maybe this is just pretty typical uh
capex spend for a business of this size
involved in the AI war. And it's not. If
we add them all up and then compare what
they all did last year, it's about
double. When you come out with your
earnings report for the quarter or for
an entire fiscal year like these last
two weeks entailed for those companies,
it's a direct report on how the business
is doing. But of course, you're going to
try to skew those numbers a little bit
because essentially what you're doing is
you're trying to portray, you know,
confidence and like this is a good
investment for the big whales on Wall
Street to invest in your company or if
they're already invested to not yank
their money out of your company. When
these earnings came out for each of the
companies, their valuation, their stock
price dipped. People sold. Wall Street
was not thrilled. And it's not like over
the next couple of days. I mean like
immediately as soon as earnings end, you
see like a big sell-off and dip of these
stocks. To get you some specifics about
that, Alphabet dropped about 9% after
the announcement. We covered that here
on the channel just a few hours later.
And there's been some noise, but they
haven't recovered. They're still down
about 21% from their recent high. I'd be
calling that bare market territory for a
$2 trillion company. Microsoft down
about 25% from its recent high. We
covered that on the channel right after
it happened. Azure Growth missed
expectations on Jan 29th and the stock
has been in basically a freef fall since
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reports come out. Meta is about 2 to 3%
away from bearer territory. They're
really skirting the line there. And
that's a crazy one because they actually
beat earnings, right? But there was
still a decrease in their stock price
because the amount that they said they
were going to set on fire for AI
development scared people. Now, Alphabet
fared the best out of these. They're
only down about 9% and my hypothesis is
that is because they are not paying the
Nvidia tax. They are not in a lifetime
of slavery with Nvidia. They are making
a lot of their own chips as you know. So
their TPUs, their own proprietary chips
have given them a little bit of
insulation from the Nvidia black hole
that's pulling all of these companies
in. Again, combined that's about a
trillion dollar in market cap
evaporating. Remember that's not because
they announced, hey, we missed our
earnings and it was bad. They beat
earnings. There was a good prognosis.
This is because they said, "We're going
to spend an insane amount of money on AI
infrastructure. We're taking a huge bet
on this. All chips on red." And the
market is saying, "Where is my money? I
want to be paid. And I don't believe
that this AI gambit is going to pay off
for you." Jensen is laughing all the way
to the bank, though. A huge chunk of
every dollar lost for all of these
companies is flowing straight into
Nvidia's pockets. They posted 57 billion
in revenue in a single quarter. Their
data center division alone did like 50
billion. And that growth is nutty. I've
never seen anything like it other than
in a very small startup where the
economics worked out. They're up 66%
year-over-year and 25% quarter
over-arter. They're guiding 65 billion
for Q4, which they're going to report on
February 25. We'll have the analysis and
coverage of that on this channel. Full
fiscal year consensus for 2026. Make
sure I'm getting this number right.
213.3 billion in revenue. That is crazy.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter
to Nvidia. It doesn't matter to Jensen
if any of these AI companies ever make a
dime. He sells chips. They sell GPUs.
They sell compute infrastructure. As
long as people keep buying their compute
infrastructure, it keeps the business
going. It keeps the business profitable.
If I sell arteasonal coffee mugs and I'm
selling you this coffee mug for this is
$5,000, right? And you're missing rent,
you're earning minimum wage, you can't
you don't have $5,000. So, you get it on
CLA or whatever the hell people are
using for a buy now pay later thing and
you split the payments up. That's going
to cause you a lot of hardship to make
those payments. But at the end of the
day, I I don't care. As long as you're
solvent and you pay me, I get the money.
Your financial situation doesn't matter
to me. That's exactly the situation that
Nvidia is in is OpenAI anthropic. How
are they going to profit from these? Are
they going to do ads? Are they not going
to do ads? That's important stuff. But
to Nvidia doesn't matter because they're
going to keep buying chips. That's the
only thing that matters. They sell
chips. They're in the chip sales
business. They're not in the AI business
and stock is doing good. So, let that
sit in your head that the market
actually thinks that Nvidia is doing
well and that this is sustainable. I
guess we'll find out if there's a big
upset after those Feb 25 earnings, but
right now it seems like smooth sailing
for Nvidia. And you might say, Dr. J,
but wait, I'm worried. I'm worried for
Sam Alman, the humble, noble, visionary
tech leader who's never had a real job
in his life and is not a software
engineer. What about him, Dr. J? And I
got good news. I mean, Sam Sammy boy is
going to be making a little money off of
this as well. And after some brutal
difficult math was able to come up with
a figure of about four cents of revenue
on every dollar spent on AI. That's
about how much profit is actually being
generated. It's four four cents on the
dollar. Okay. Even dinosaur
organizations like Fidelity are finally
starting to catch on to, hey, this might
be a bubble. We may have gotten ahead of
ourselves a little bit here. So, let's
take their five indicators of, hey, this
is a bubble, and see if they apply to
everything we've just said in this
video. Elevated valuations, check. Rapid
spending increases, check. Remember,
that's double growth and AI capex this
year. Circular financing. Open AAI uses
Nvidia chips. Nvidia gives OpenAI money,
but it's not money. It's money to buy
the chips. Check. Debt reliance, check.
If you saw my video on SoftBank the
other day, it looks like they're going
to be leading the next funding round for
OpenAI. Check. In lagging monetization,
check. They don't even know by their own
admission in the Super Bowl commercials
how the hell they're going to make money
off of this. So, that's five for five.
And that's Fidelity talking, not some
random bearded YouTuber. I mean, that's
circular funding. It It sounds like a
fun merrygoround to be on. I wish I was
on it. I'm not on a fun carnival ride
right now, but to be on that
merrygoround, you know, they're tossing
money at you. They got Mr. Alman over
here. You know, you're a celebrity. You
got tons of money. If this thing goes
belly up, you're you're going to be
fine. You're going to be fine. You got
plenty of money. You were on the
merrygoround. The trick is hopping off
before the music stops. And when is that
going to happen? I don't know. That's
the million-dollar question. If I could
answer that, I probably wouldn't be
making YouTube videos. I'd probably be
retired on some island somewhere. But
nobody knows. Uh, all I know is that the
fundamentals are off. The market has
become emotional and speculative. It
meets all criteria of any bubble that's
ever happened. And it's not a matter of
if the collapse is going to happen
around this. It's a matter of when.
Michael Green of Simplify said it best.
Quote, "Artational market would price
these risks." Unfortunately, we're not
in a rational market. Again, we're going
to be hitting a full analysis of
Nvidia's Feb 25 earnings. That should be
the best information we've gotten on
this in terms of raw numbers in quite a
while. So, I'm really stoked for that
coverage. I hope you're here for it. And
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in here in paper so you can sit down and
form your own conclusions. Thank you so
much for watching.
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Four major tech investors of Nvidia recently lost $1 trillion in market cap, not due to product failure or recession, but because they announced colossal spending on AI infrastructure and chips. These companies plan to invest around $690 billion in capex for AI in 2026, with Microsoft earmarking $120 billion+, Alphabet $180 billion (double last year), Amazon $200 billion (50% YoY growth), and Meta $115-135 billion. Wall Street reacted negatively, causing significant stock dips for these companies, despite some beating earnings, indicating skepticism about the return on investment for this 'AI gambit'. Conversely, Nvidia is thriving, posting $57 billion in revenue in a single quarter, as its business model relies on selling chips and compute infrastructure, independent of its customers' eventual AI monetization. Concerns are mounting about an AI bubble, with Fidelity's five indicators—elevated valuations, rapid spending increases, circular financing, debt reliance, and lagging monetization—all present in the current AI market. The speaker concludes that the market is emotional and speculative, fulfilling all bubble criteria, suggesting a collapse is a matter of 'when', not 'if'.
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