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Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?

December 19, 2025·33 min·6-min readsolotechnology
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Despite Nvidia's meteoric rise and dominance in the AI hardware market, its entire business model and the broader AI infrastructure boom rest on an unsustainable foundation: massive capital expenditures by hyperscalers and startups that are not generating profits, while relying on endless

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Ed Zitron

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