IO Fund's Beth Kindig says AI infrastructure demand is increasingly coming from enterprises, neoclouds and sovereign AI customers rather than just the largest cloud providers, which could benefit makers of servers, CPUs, networking, storage and cooling. Nvidia's ACIE business reached $40.3 billion in fiscal Q2, up 138.5% year over year versus 101.2% for hyperscalers, and Kindig estimates it could overtake hyperscaler revenue within two to six quarters. Citing Dell's forecast of 200 gigawatts of AI data center growth through 2030, worth over $1 trillion, she sees Dell and Super Micro Computer as direct beneficiaries. She also highlights rack-scale CPU platforms from Nvidia, AMD and Arm, and liquid cooling, which TrendForce expects to reach 59% penetration in 2027 from 6% in 2023.
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