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Dylan Patel says Google and Meta could redirect money from stock buybacks to computer infrastructure, which would affect the market somewhat but not substantially.
Dylan Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“it was pretty simple for them to stop doing buybacks or Meta stop doing buybacks and turn around and buy computer infrastructure.”
“And that doesn't have a huge effect on the market, but it does have some effect.”Play from 46:03Report a misattribution
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