@FinanceYF5: Nebius hits $3B annualized revenue — is it a bubble? Explained in 8 minutes Just three months ago, Nebius's annualized revenue was $1.9 billion. Now it's $3 billion. Yet just last week, peer CoreWeave plunged 15% in a single day. The GPU cloud isn't the next AWS — it's the landlord business of the AI era: rent is real, but the buildings are built with borrowed money. Those multi-hundred-billion-dollar contracts, backlogs, and secured power deals are mostly leases and land, not revenue. https://t.co/WqM9RV1xya
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The article analyzes Nebius's annualized revenue growth from $1.9 billion to $3 billion, contrasting it with CoreWeave's sharp stock decline. It argues that the GPU cloud business is essentially a "landlord" play in the AI era — the rent is real, but the expansion relies on borrowing and long-term leases rather than current income.
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Is Nebius’s $3B Annualized Revenue a Bubble? Explained in 8 Minutes
Three months ago, Nebius’s annualized revenue was $1.9 billion. Now it’s $3 billion — and just last week, peer CoreWeave dropped 15% in a single day.
The GPU cloud isn’t the next Amazon Web Services — it’s the landlord of the AI era: the rent is real, but the building was built with borrowed money. Those contracts worth tens of billions, backlogs, and secured power deals? They’re mostly leases and land plots, not revenue.
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