Start here: the machines, money and power behind AI

New to Mavday? Read these in order. Each piece follows one link in the AI supply chain, from the machines that print chips to the companies borrowing billions to rent them out, using company filings and dated figures. None of it is investment advice.

  1. The machines that make AI chips

    Every advanced AI chip is printed on ASML's EUV machines, and ASML says it can't make enough of them for 2027 and 2028.

  2. The chips themselves

    TSMC makes most of the world's AI processors. Its results show how much AI demand is really arriving.

  3. The companies that rent out AI computing

    Neoclouds such as CoreWeave and IREN buy the chips and rent them to AI labs, mostly with borrowed money.

  4. How the data centres get paid for

    Convertible notes, project bonds and Google backstops: how builders fund sites before the first rent arrives.

  5. Power: the limit money can't buy past

    In Britain, the grid connection queue is now the bottleneck, as Microsoft's exit from Loughton showed.

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