Research Hub AI Infrastructure

AI Infrastructure Research

Bottom-up models, technology primers, and investment memos covering the buildout of compute, networking, power, and the application layer that consumes them.

Working index — small audience, unlisted.

Working index of research outputs. Each card links to a self-contained piece. Models open as live-data summary pages; primers and memos open as the full reading text with inline citations.

Numbers throughout chain back to source models (the bottom-up token model and the DC-capex archetype model). Citations chain back to verbatim primary sources, verified line-by-line.

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Models

03 deliverables
Live 2026-05-21

AI-Infra Capex 2026–2030 — Bottom-Up Model

Bottom-up token-demand decomposition for the agentic-AI buildout, four demand chains, eleven workforce functions. Headline: $1.2T (2026) → $1.8T (2030). Anchors the gap thesis against consensus top-down forecasts.

Open model summary
Coming soon 2026-05-25

DC Capex by Archetype

Five datacenter archetypes (training-core, inference, agentic, edge, legacy) × five years of capex breakdown. Built bottom-up from public hyperscaler models. Summary extract page in build.

Extract page in build
Coming soon 2026-05-12

AI-Infra Market Map (L-shape Marimekko)

The unified AI-infrastructure market map. Vertical Compute column on the left, six horizontal supply-chain bands on the right. The base layer the archetype BOMs sit on top of.

Extract page in build

Primers

06 deliverables
New 2026-05-25

Networking & Interconnect

Optical and electrical interconnect economics through 2030. Goldman's $154B optical TAM unpacked, with services unbundled — network test, hyperscale fit-out, fiber MSPs all surface as exposed names.

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Live 2026-05-26

AI-DC Debt & Credit Markets

How the AI datacenter buildout is being financed. Neocloud debt, hyperscaler bond issuance, ABS structures, Stargate financing — and where the credit cycle gets uncomfortable.

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Live 2026-05-15

Agentic AI

What "agentic AI" actually means in practice, and the workforce-replacement framing that underpins the token-demand model. Foundational primer for the bottom-up token model.

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Live 2026-05-19

Agent-to-Agent

The agent-to-agent communication layer — MCP, A2A protocols, orchestration patterns, and what changes when agents talk to other agents rather than to humans.

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Live 2026-05-19

Financial Services AI

AI vertical applications inside financial services — research, advisory, ops, distribution. The buy/build map and what's actually shipped.

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Live 2026-05-19

Customer-Care AaaS

Customer-care as the first profitable agentic-AI vertical. Why this one ships and what the unit economics look like at scale.

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Memos & Briefs

06 deliverables
New 2026-05-22

DC Archetype Bill of Materials

What's actually inside each datacenter archetype, line by line. Cumulative spend by category, 2026–2030. The investable-theme view sits on top of this: networking surfaces as the asymmetric exposure.

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Live 2026-05-19

PE AI Strategy — Buy / Build / Compose

Strategy memo on how a mid-market PE firm ($1–10B AUM) should approach AI tooling. The hybrid path wins on durability, not cost — recommends a four-tier stack.

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Live 2026-05-18

SemiAnalysis Value-Capture Counter-Thesis

Where SemiAnalysis's value-capture framing in the AI infrastructure stack misses. The counter-read on who actually captures economics across the buildout.

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Live 2026-05-18

Token Pricing Validation

What tokens actually cost in 2026, by vendor and model class. Validates the per-token price assumptions inside the bottom-up token model.

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Live 2026-05-19

Renewables Outside US

Where AI-DC renewable power capacity is actually being built outside the United States. The gap between US deliverability headlines and the global picture.

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Coming soon 2026-05-19

TSS Inc — Company Research

Single-name company research on TSS Inc. Datacenter services exposure analysis. HTML conversion pending before going live.

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Methodology

01 deliverable
Live 2026-05-19

Three-Doc Walkthrough

Walkthrough of the BOM model, the BOM memo, and the agentic primer as a single coherent argument. Designed for a 20-minute first read.

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