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AI hardware capital expenditure exhibits a "treadmill effect" or "prisoner's dilemma": if a single vendor slows procurement, its cash flow improves in the short term, but it may fall behind in the next-generation model training race and lose customers and pricing power, so all major players are forced to maintain high-intensity investment.
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10/30/2026
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Valid until: 1/28/2027
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Fiber Lasts Decades, GPUs Only Three Years: The AI Boom Is Not the Dot-Com Bubble
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