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The Projection

The surface is never the system.

AI BIG PICTURE

Where the Capex Lands

The ~$750B question posed as a DESTINATION, not a spender: where does the aggregate AI capex actually land, on what projects? The taxonomy — chips (Nvidia/AMD/TSMC/Broadcom + custom silicon like Jalapeño), datacenters (Stargate, Camellia, Colossus + the 100s of sites), power (gas turbines, nuclear-for-AI, grid), land/cooling/water. Sibling to hyperscaler-capex-big-picture, which cuts the SAME money by spender; this one follows it to where it physically lands. Most destinations have no thread yet — that's the worklist.

Compute SpendPower BuildoutDatacenter Sites
STATUS · OPEN OPENED · 2026-07-24 LAST SEEN ·
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2026-07-24 — Opened (meta-thread)

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Related threads (shared entities)

· GPT-5.6
· Jalapeño
· OpenAI IPO
· Microsoft's Hedge
· Apple × Gemini
· Circular Financing
· Stargate
· Frontier Gatekeeping
· Containment Breach
· Hyperscaler Capex
· Google Capex
· Meta Capex
· Colossus
· Grok
· Musk Megacap
· Grok Harm
· Compute Spend
· Power Buildout
· Datacenter Sites
· Nvidia's Order Book
· In-House Silicon
· Grid & Turbines
· Camellia
· Big Tech into Health
· Google Health
· OpenAI Health
· Lab IPO Wave
· Nvidia as Lender
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· CoreWeave Bet
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