Today's episode is brought to you by Teucrium. Learn more at:
https://bit.ly/4gfI0feIn this interview, Chanos breaks down why hosting GPUs is a commodity business with low returns and why the depreciation of AI chips (like Nvidia’s) creates a massive financial risk for companies like CoreWeave and Oracle. He also discusses the dangers of private credit, the accounting tricks at Live Nation, and why the "unprofitable" nature of today’s AI customers makes this cycle riskier than the Dotcom era. Recorded on December 11, 2025.
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00:00 Intro
00:40 Teucrium $TILL Pre-roll
01:23 Data Center = Crummy Business
10:05 Oracle Could Have "Financial Problems" If AI Monetization Is Pushed Out
16:13 Coreweave and "Neo-Clouds" Have No Moat
18:11 Worrisome Rise of Off-Balance Sheet Deals To Finance Data Centers
22:00 GPU Depreciation and Inflated Earnings
28:01 IREN and other former Bitcoin Miners Pivoting to AI
35:44 Teucrium $TILL Mid-roll
37:28 "Way Worse Than 1999" In That Companies Now Spending on AI Are Unprofitable
41:48 OpenAI = King of Losing Money?
47:32 Nvidia
49:07 "Private Credit Reminds Me of Michael Milken"
56:29 Private Equity
1:02:50 Teucrium $TILL End-roll
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