Cloud Computing
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Follow the CAPEX: Triangulating NVIDIA
Previous CAPEX obsessing Lets compare NVIDIA’s Data Center segment revenue to the CAPEX spending of the hyperclouds (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, henceforth AGM) plus Meta over the last couple years (AGMM collectively). We’d like to know much of NVIDIA’s revenue is from the hyperclouds (and honorary hypercloud sidekick Meta) and how much of hypercloud CAPEX is…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective
Tl;dr: Cloud CAPEX is once again both exciting and revealing! Previous retrospectives: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 plus earlier/other CAPEX musings. Capital expenditures (CAPEX) are old school. You acquire some abiding apparatus around which you build a business. It is the antithesis of the “asset light” avoidance of hard work or the financial…
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Platformonomics TGIF #28: October 27, 2023
Be sure to subscribe below and to the right to receive all my output via email Q3 2023 Cloud CAPEX Amazon $12.76B -19%Google $8.06B +11%Microsoft $11.2B +70% (This is corporate level CAPEX, not just cloud infrastructure) Amazon’s decline seems like the continued reduction in logistics/fulfillment spending. We’ll get a breakout of AWS CAPEX next quarter.…