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VRT directional thesis

The company that sells the switchgear, power and liquid cooling inside every AI data center rides a build wall where finished shells, not GPUs, are what is scarce.

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“Because of the above, capital markets care more about revenue produced from chips rather than resale value, and chips are only a subset of the total cost of compute— heterogeneous builds, the rack, powered shell, interconnect, cooling. It was interesting when we were talking with CoreWeave about the— that I was really expecting the answer to be chip constraints and he was saying powered shells, powered shells, which is what we've heard from Satya Nadella.”
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