Apollo finds this time series in its incoming firehose feed flow, and reports. My reaction: WAIT!! WHAT?!?! WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM?!?! And the sudden upward bend in the net as the costs curve slows and the revenue curve accelerates is—interesting.
The lines on this chart look authoritative. But they are a crowd forecast. And where has the crowd gotten its information from? What bottom-up detailed understandings of the technology and its deployment do the guys with the spreadsheets working for the sell-side actually have here?
Torsten Slok: Hyperscaler Credit Rests on One Consensus Assumption <[https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/hyperscaler-credit-rests-on-one-consensus-assumption]>: ‘The credit story in hyperscalers rests on a single consensus assumption, that operating cash flow triples from $600 billion to $2 trillion, see chart below.