META free cashflow last year : $20bn. Cash on Hand: $47bn. "Worrying" Debt: $15bn sought. ORCL, the other company they're talking about: $20bn in Cash from Ope

META free cashflow last year : $20bn. Cash on Hand: $47bn. "Worrying" Debt: $15bn sought. ORCL, the other company they're talking about: $20bn in Cash from Operations, $21bn in capital expenditures, ORCL Cash on Hand: $11bn. ORCL's recent debt flotation: $18bn. ORCL has 40 years to pay back; demand was reportedly $88bn for the offering. I imagine pricing was close to T-bills. These flotations posit that demand for compute will continue to increase over the next 40 years, and that infra providers who can get there early will do better than Treasuries. Calling it a bubble just because the numbers are big is the weakest of financial journalism. Now, do you think inference and datacenter demand will drop? If so, it's worth asking if and when these datacenter will pay, and if they don't, who will take the hit. That would be useful analysis. I'm pro these plays -- right now inference has an 80% margin; that's after paying the fully capitalized costs of datacenters + compute + the datacenter margin. To the extent a company controls its own inference stack and can do so with a 5% cost of capital, they should do it.