Everyone's watching the AI models. Almost nobody's watching how the whole thing gets paid for. In this clip we follow the money.

Malcolm and Thomas break down the massive, fast-rising spend on AI infrastructure — the compute, the data centers, the networking that all of this runs on — and then get into the part that should give you pause: how much of it is being funded with debt. They get into GPU-backed loans, why borrowing against chips is a whole new kind of risk, and what it means for the boom if the returns don't show up fast enough to cover the bill.

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 — Rapid Increase in AI Infrastructure Spending

06:16 — Debt Financing for AI Infrastructure

📊 Key takeaways from this segment:

• AI infrastructure spending — compute, data centers, networking — is climbing fast

• A lot of it is funded by debt, including loans backed by the GPUs themselves

• More borrowing means more risk if the AI payoff doesn't arrive on schedule

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