Episode 595: The Silent Disco

This week, we discuss sovereign cloud, Postgres conference takeaways, CoreWeave's debt, and why AI is a single-player game. Plus, whether home automation is worth it.

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Runner-up Titles

• Kleenex Box
  
• Crack in the Ceiling
  
• A pure hobbyist domain
  
• The answer is Captain Hook
  
• Lock-in by being a good product
  
• Welcome to the real cloud
  
• I want to be able to walk to a data center
  
• Whenever the data center is modernized, there's a date it's shut down
  
• We have all the pop-ups and all the cookie warnings
  
• Databases, who knew?
  
• Don't use the money field
  
• The peanut butter and jelly of enterprise software
  
• Canary in the coal mine
  
• Yesterday you used \$298 in tokens
  
• AI is a single-player game
  
• Push the bottleneck further up the line
  
• AI pricing preppers
  
• A bunch of rotten food in their basement
  
• Buy tokens
  
• Send Matt Ray to the Barkley Marathons
  
• Mosaic 1999

Rundown

• Cloud market power: 35% growth, a regulator at Microsoft's door
  
  • Synergy: cloud spending hits \$129B in Q1 2026, +35% YoY
    
  • UK CMA concludes cloud investigation: "competition is not working well"
    
  • UK CMA proposes strategic market status for Microsoft business software
    
  • Google to discount cloud services for US government
    
  • OVHcloud CEO: half of capacity available, first AI model early 2027
    
  • Microsoft denies reports of 20% cloud cuts to offset AI spending
    
  • Nvidia pauses some cloud revenue-sharing deals over antitrust scrutiny
    
  • A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams
    
• Enterprise IT buying: big commitments up top, seat caps below
  
  • Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only \$29 on Claude Per Month
    
  • Gartner: only 13% of CIOs report significant or transformational AI value
    
  • ServiceNow signs \$1.2B contract with Google Cloud
    
  • Perplexity signs \$750M cloud agreement with Microsoft
    
  • ServiceNow denies Decagon buyout interest
    
  • Your agents need a platform
    
• AI data center debt: CoreWeave and the bond market
  
  • 'Yikes': CoreWeave stock tanks on bond yield woes
    
  • AI tremors felt in corporate bond market
    
  • CoreWeave shares and bonds slide further as AI debt fears mount
    
  • CoreWeave CEO: market acting "irrationally," backlog covers debt
    
  • Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they underwrote
    
  • Gartner: \$3.5T of AI infra spend at impairment risk by 2030
    
  • Swamp Club
    
  • AI Is Smarter Than Ever. So Where’s the Revolution?

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• Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
  
• cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027
  
• SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

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