Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said demand for neoclouds, providers that rent out compute power for AI, is 'off the charts,' but these companies may lack the working capital to fund their expansion. CoreWeave and Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX) also said demand exceeds what they can supply in the short term, and CoreWeave has raised more than $30 billion in debt and equity this year, equal to almost 91% of its roughly $33 billion market cap. The author says that if neoclouds secure funding through more borrowing or dilutive financing, they will keep buying Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia could benefit, while spending could fall if the AI boom slows.
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