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Musk pointed out that if companies lack revenue other than AI data centers, the bond market will almost never provide financing, and more than 200 “new cloud” companies may face bankruptcy or consolidation.
According to a report from the British “Guardian” website on the 26th, the American entrepreneurmusk (Elon Musk) warned that the capital flow driving the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry is drying up, especially for some companies in the cloud computing sector.
Musk posted on social platforms that at least 200 “neocloud” companies, which are companies that provide dedicated cloud infrastructure to run AI computing loads, may go bankrupt or consolidate; Companies that depend on AI data centers for revenue are being shunned by lending institutions and will have difficulty obtaining funding.
Musk wrote: “In the past few weeks, the debt market has provided almost no financing channel for companies without significant revenues outside the AI data center business. SpaceX has completed $40 billion of debt financing to buy GPUs; but we are an investment-grade company with revenues from Starlink and rocket launch businesses. This means that these more than 200 ‘new cloud’ companies will face a lot of death and consolidation. Few companies may survive. There are, but not many.”
Expressing the above idea, Musk revealed that his American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX has finalized a US$40 billion debt financing agreement to purchase chips needed for its AI business.
The “New Cloud” company is a professional cloud service provider that rents Nvidia high-speed chip clusters to companies that want to do AI training and reasoning, including the American company “CoreWave”. The company’s shares have fallen nearly 60% in the past year as investors question whether heavy investments in AI data centers will yield strong cash flow returns.
In recent weeks, the cost of insuring a company’s debt against default has continued to rise, an indicator that typically indicates a company is in credit trouble.
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He believes that in recent weeks, the debt market has been reluctant to provide financing to companies that lack other revenues and rely solely on AI data center revenues, indicating that the flow of funds may be cut off to promote the rapid expansion of AI.
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He named at least 200 “new cloud” companies. These companies primarily provide dedicated cloud infrastructure for AI computing power. Without stable cash flow, many companies will disappear from the market or merge in the future.
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CoreWeave is considered a representative of the new cloud, and its stock price and credit risk reflect the market’s skepticism about the returns on AI investments; SpaceX was able to successfully complete a US$40 billion debt financing due to its investment-grade qualifications and diversified revenues.
