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Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

aired Sep 25, 2026
Signal
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confidence 0.99
Orig61.1
Actn75.0
Dens70.8
Dpth53.5
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Summary

Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline Monologue, I'm Speaker 1: your host Ed Zitron. As ever, subscribe to the newsletter, premium, Speaker 1: you know all that good stuff, I'll have the links Speaker 1: in there.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of speaker, capacity, data, including: As ever, subscribe to the newsletter, premium, Speaker 1: you know all that good stuff, I'll have the links Speaker 1: in there.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And while I couldn't report it at the Speaker 1: time because I still had to run down some leads, Speaker 1: the total power of the chips was estimated at about Speaker 1: 1.993 gi
  2. 02Now, not everybody reports construction in progress, Speaker 1: so that number doesn't include Microsoft, Firmus, Sharon, Equinix, Nebius, Poolside, Speaker 1: private operators li
  3. 03In other words, I think NVIDIA has made Speaker 1: somewhere between $ 200 and $ 300 billion in revenue on stuff Speaker 1: that's been sold probably 24 to 36 months in advance, Sp
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