As of April 2026, Oracle finalized a $16.3 billion financing deal for its massive data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan. This transaction is widely recognized as the largest single-facility technology debt package in history.
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@d9 they bailed out insurance companies, not just banks back 2008. also remember countless of bailouts for car manufacturers. this time it will be exactly the same justification about too-big-to-fail and how tech industry collapse would collapse the whole economy, like housing market collapse. they will even sprinkle in how AI is the national security and future and cannot allow Chine getting the lead.
Oracle and others will be 100% bailed out using our 401k and taxes.
@d9,
"Irrational exuberance" applies to the crazy valuations given to tech companies leading up to the dot com crash. Sound familiar?
@c1 To bail out banks is one thing, as banks hold customer deposits and can't be allowed to fail. Even so, some couldn't be saved. Tech companies are totally a different thing altogether.
Irrational exuberance applies to stock market prices, not to companies because unlike the stock market where you have very little time to react to moving prices, tech companies can ponder over a decision for a reasonable amount of time
If AI is infact a bubble then larry have to put goats and pigs in his datacenters.
@bh they think government (which they bought) will bail them out. 2008 is coming again.
@bh,
Look up the term "irrational exuberance".
@bc
Just because they're not publicly traded doesn't mean details don't get out:
https://techstartups.com/2025/09/30/openai-hits-4-3b-in-revenue-in-first-half-of-2025-a-16-rise-but-profitability-still-years-away/
https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3125527/openai-revenue-soars-to-43-billion-burn-hits-25-billion?utm_source=yahoo_finance&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=headlines&r=caf6fe0e0db70d936033da5461e60141
@am You really believe LE and Sam Altman haven't thought about it? It didn't even cross their minds?
@am how do you know if OpenAI has been profitable? It isn't a publicly traded company. All they have to do if file taxes which aren't public information until they become publicly owned.
It should be a big concern that OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are all private companies right now. This makes regulating them significantly harder. There is some talk of IPOs but that might just be to keep the government at bay.
I agree that the implosion will be glorious to watch.
All based on projected OpenAI revenue, which itself has never made a profit.
The implosion will be glorious to watch.