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🗓️ 4 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Meantime, Magsevon names are still in the red, losing more than $1.5 trillion in value in today and yesterday's sessions. |
0:07.2 | Tariffs we talked about earlier might hit the hyperscalers posing a threat to data center plans. |
0:12.5 | Our dear Dubose is watching that for today's tech check. Hey, Dee. |
0:16.4 | Hey, good morning, Carl. So the AI trade, of course, that has powered megacaps over the last few years. |
0:22.2 | There was already fatigue, and now that tariff impact on data center buildout threatens to further disrupt them. |
0:28.0 | And other sectors, by the way, like energy that were beneficiaries. |
0:31.7 | Now, the massive projects, they were billed as economic game changers. |
0:35.1 | They promised to spur growth, create jobs, cement the U.S. as a global |
0:39.8 | leader in artificial intelligence. But tariffs now threatening to slow down expansion in a number of |
0:45.2 | ways. You know, one, it'll make tech equipment more expensive. Bernstein estimates that data processing |
0:50.4 | machine imports were at $200 billion in 2024, mostly from China, Taiwan, Mexico, |
0:56.1 | Vietnam. Tariffs also target raw materials like steel and aluminum. That's key for construction. |
1:01.8 | Also green energy, a key source of energy for those data centers meant to be built. |
1:06.2 | Now, Corweave in its IPO prospectus about a week ago already flagged tariffs in its risk section, |
1:12.6 | saying they had impacted the availability and the cost of GPUs. |
1:16.8 | Its largest customer is Microsoft. |
1:18.8 | A recent report pointed to Google as a potential new customer. |
1:22.3 | So even its ability to serve megacaps and the AI boom in terms of computing power, that's now further at risk. |
1:28.9 | There's also Project Stargate, a half a trillion dollar initiative from OpenAI SoftBank and |
1:34.0 | Oracle to build out the next generation of AI infrastructure. That also hinges on a steady supply |
1:39.2 | of chips, networking hardware, and raw materials. There's also financing, guys. If trade uncertainty |
1:45.7 | tightens credit markets and hurts the consortium's ability to secure debt financing, which it was |
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