AI capital spending relies on circular vendor financing

Conviction: 72% · Horizon: 2Y · 2026-06-15
Circular AI spending increases credit and earnings-quality risk

AI infrastructure growth is increasingly supported by overlapping supplier, customer, investor, and lender relationships. Revenue booked by one firm can depend on capital spending or financing capacity at another, making the cycle vulnerable to missed payments, writedowns, or widening credit spreads.

Instrument Side Target Reason
CRWV Short We believe highly leveraged AI infrastructure providers with concentrated customer contracts and GPU financing exposure are vulnerable if funding conditions tighten or customers delay capacity commitments.
XLU Long We believe electricity capacity is a durable bottleneck for AI infrastructure, making regulated power assets better positioned than companies whose growth depends on circular compute commitments.

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