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Matthew: Hyperscalers hype power constraints to induce third-party infrastructure overbuilding
“So if you think about that from a power standpoint, my incentive in that scenario would be to talk up power constraints, right? Saying that there's not nearly enough of it. We need to build so much. Like this is the greatest cycle because that will incent spec…”
Matthew: Power constraints widen Nvidia's total cost advantage over less efficient chips
“Because since we are power constrained and that constraint is expected to get worse and power prices rise, the NVIDIA chip holders actually, like the TCO advantage that they have versus less efficient chips actually goes up in that scenario, right? So they act…”
Matthew: Tech and energy have a duration mismatch of years versus decades
“The, you know, magnitude and duration of the cycle is of the debate, but it introduces a duration mismatch where technology is often done on cycles that are, you know, one to two years, whereas energy is typically multi-year, even multi-decadal, depending on t…”
Matthew: Powered land owners benefit from hyping power constraints
“Their incentive is to talk up the constraints as well, because it increases the value of the asset they're owning, which is the real estate or the powered land bank.”
Matthew: Only 50 to 100 US public stocks are pure-play climate tech
“If you break down that universe of what you're calling, you know, the pure climate technology or climate service companies, you might end up with a universe of, let's call it, 50 to a hundred names just using rough approximate numbers, and so that's often chal…”
Matthew: Climate tech valuations suffer disproportionately from rising discount rates and debt costs
“In terms of the broader companies and their business models, oftentimes with some of these climate tech companies, you do have what we call capital intensity, meaning that you need to spend a lot of dollars at CapEx or R&D or et cetera to develop your product …”