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Cloud-compute contracts with “investment-grade counterparties” are becoming the new ballast for infra-heavy players that used to be priced like speculative miners. If you run a capital-intensive compute or energy business, lock in visible backlog with creditworthy buyers before the market reprices you as pure beta again.
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