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Data-center construction and the revenue of Taiwan's AI hardware chain and of the power and cooling suppliers: whether the buildings fill as fast as they go up.

The theses it settles

The contracts

The next expiry of each; a strike opens its question, the title its whole ladder.

Who sits on each side

The commercial parties a print hurts, on each side: the ones who would hedge with a contract on it.

  • Monthly revenue of Taiwan's AI hardware chain, growth from a year earlier
    Loses if it rises
    • hyperscalers and neoclouds paying for AI racks, whose capital spending is this revenue
    • Taiwan life insurers holding US dollar bonds, as the export receipts lift the Taiwan dollar
    Loses if it falls
    • Taiwan server assemblers and their lenders (Hon Hai, Quanta, Wistron, Wiwynn)
    • suppliers of power, cooling and networking to the racks (Delta, Asia Vital, Accton) and their component vendors
  • US private data-center construction spending
    Loses if it rises
    • data-center developers and hyperscalers paying for scarce electricians, switchgear and transformers
    • other commercial and industrial builders competing for the same contractors
    Loses if it falls
    • electrical-equipment makers and contractors with data-center backlogs, such as Vertiv, Eaton and Quanta
    • construction lenders and data-center developers financed on growing pipelines
  • Revenue growth of the data-center power and cooling basket
    Loses if it rises
    • data-center developers paying for electrical and thermal gear
    Loses if it falls
    • equipment makers
    • their component suppliers