hyperscaler

also referred to as: hyperscalers

11 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 10, 2025 by Pete Shadbolt · across every show →

Everything said about hyperscaler, oldest first

Sep 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
Shadbolt: Hyperscaler leaders understand quantum computing requires 1M qubits
“I've actually been honestly pretty impressed that they know you need about a million qubits. They know you need error correction. They know that it's not for PowerPoint and Excel. They understand, you know, these guys have got 20 other things of extreme high p…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:51:03 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Katzenberg: Hyperscalers are investing $700B in capex over 24 months
“You know, there's seven hundred billion dollars of capital investment being made in 24 months.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 4:32 Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Strong moats make new cloud hyperscalers unlikely to emerge
“It's very clear that it's not all that easy to make chips like NVIDIA. It is very clear that running operations as large as what the hyperscalers run for renting out compute, that's not that easy. It's very hard for a fourth, a fifth hyperscaler to come up.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 9:57 Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 15, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Exowatt claims a 10-gigawatt backlog with leading hyperscaler customers
“We've been very fortunate to have a backlog of, Over 10 gigawatts at this point working with the leading hyperscalers.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 24:35 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Happi: Hyperscaler data center buildouts will keep scaling through 2030
“So I would say until 2030, there's no doubt that this is going to continue to scale at this rate. The question is like, what happens after 2030, and is it going to continue beyond that?”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 35:48 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 15, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Happi: Hyperscalers relying on gas burners will face major emission penalties
“Otherwise we're going to be left with tens or even, yeah, tens of gigawatts of Mac gas burners that are going to last for another 20 years, and they might be a quick fix now, but I think the hyperscalers know they're going to pay a price for this later, both i…”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 32:33 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Rangwalla: Samsung and SK Hynix Generate More Cash Flow Than Hyperscalers
“Samsung and Hynix together generate more cash flow than every hyperscaler.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 32:35 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Desai: Hyperscalers are turning away top-50 enterprise customers due to capacity limits
“These hyperscalers, some of them, are running out of capacity, and they're running out of capacity, so this large customer in Texas, speaking to them, they have really good partnership with one of the hyperscalers. They wanted to move more workloads in cloud, …”
CJ Desai Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 9:07 Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Desai: A major US telecom was refused regional cloud capacity
“The other, you know, large telecommunications company in the United States was also similar. They had one particular hyperscaler, and they said this hyperscaler refused to give them additional regional capacity that they needed. So they signed with the second …”
CJ Desai Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 10:39 Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Desai: Capacity limits and data privacy are reviving on-prem data centers
“Data centers are back. Nobody is now saying, hey especially in the Fortune 500, and most people get that wrong because everybody thought, hey, all the workloads are just going to move to this hyperscaler. So hyperscaler is running out of capacity and making su…”
CJ Desai Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 10:06 Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 29, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hurlston: Hyperscalers request millions of optical units versus historical thousands
“You're talking about volumes of, let's say, a thousand units a quarter. And now we're being asked by these hyperscalers to deploy in 1,000,010 of millions of units. So it's really changed the dynamic in our industry, not just for Lumentum, but I think every si…”
Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 5:16 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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