CoreWeave, Nscale Put Neocloud Economics in Focus
THE SO WHAT
Heavy debt loads and rising interest costs at neocloud providers make AI infra pricing and availability more fragile than it looks. If you depend on these vendors, you should be stress-testing scenarios where financing tightens and capacity or pricing shifts mid-contract.
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