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Dylan Patel says hyperscalers now spend all their cash on capital expenditure rather than generating cash available for other uses.
Dylan Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“Meta. They funded a huge percentage of it. They were more than half of compute, but they now don't generate cash.”
“They actually spend everything on CapEx.”Play from 45:35Report a misattribution
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