Tariff Armageddon? | GPU Loopholes, Mexico Supply Chain Shift, Wafer Fab Equipment Vulnerabilities, Optical Module Pricing Surge, Datacenter Equipment
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the US has reached a macro-level scale, and ensuring continuous growth will require ample availability of capital. We believe that the economic uncertainty induced by Trump tariffs could become the single largest barrier to American AI supremacy. With Scaling Laws still very much alive, tens of billions of dollars of capital expenditures are required by leading AI Labs to keep improving the quality of their products & systems at this incredible pace.
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