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Platformonomics TGIF #120: March 13, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email No newsletter next week. Try to amuse yourselves. News Oracle “Beats”: Q3 FY26 Oracle “beat” the number this quarter and Wall Street sent the stock upwards almost…
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The Pain in Maine Stems Mainly from the Insane
The playbook for politicians, policymakers and the press is clear when electricity prices rise: blame the boogeyman! AI! Big Tech! Data Centers! (Bonus points if you use those same data centers to complain about data centers!) The snag in this case is none of those culprits exist in Maine. The state has maybe half a…
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Platformonomics TGIF #108: November 14, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Reality is starting to reassert itself! News Discounting Oracle’s Remaining Performance Obligation Oracle has now given back more in market cap than it gained from announcing $300…
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Platformonomics TGIF #107: November 7, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email All AI through-line this week. News Did OpenAI Find the Money This Week? I interpret that as OpenAI subsequently walked back the comment, offered a blizzard of…
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Platformonomics TGIF #106: October 31, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email CAPEX WEEK is always spooky! My Writing Follow the CAPEX: Q3 2025 Scoreboard The quarterly HyperCAPEX update warrants its own post. Is $114 billion a lot? Previous:…
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Follow the CAPEX: Q3 2025 Scoreboard
While every week is CAPEX week here at Platformonomics, this particular week is our quarterly celebration of insane infrastructure instantiation, aka earnings! We’re breaking the quarterly update out to a standalone post instead of burying it in the weekly newsletter. The four hyperCAPEX companies spent over $114 billion on CAPEX in Q3, up 18% from…