NVDA Funds AI Scale as Tech Debt Soars and Software Drops

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The AI buildout has gotten large enough to start financing its own demand. Nvidia is now bankrolling the customers buying its chips. Google is borrowing across five currencies just to keep pace with its own capex. Sitting on top of all that infrastructure, enterprise software is being judged on a completely separate scorecard — regardless of what analysts say about it.

NVDA — Chip supplier now financing the buyers of its own chips. GOOGL — Raising debt in five currencies to fund its capex. OpenAI — Locking in 8 gigawatts of power for 20 years. OKTA — Bullish analyst moves across the board, shares fell anyway. WDAY — Downgraded on slowing backlog, ahead of Aug 27 earnings.

The infrastructure layer is increasingly funding its own growth story — suppliers underwriting customers, hyperscalers underwriting their own expansion. The software layer doesn't get that same benefit of the doubt; it's being priced on its numbers alone.

Which raises the real question: once the financing is doing some of the work the demand used to do, how do you tell the two apart?

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