Silicon Data CEO Li on AI Race and Tokenomics
THE SO WHAT
When insiders say the AI race is shifting from chip manufacturing to GPU and data center economics, the battleground is moving to utilization, financing, and pricing models. Operators should be less fixated on raw FLOPs and more on contract structure, capacity guarantees, and how you monetize idle compute over the next 24–36 months.
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