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This is the moment the subsidy game gets visible to lawmakers with power. Data centers are externalizing costs through nondisclosure and tax incentives, and now it's on the record. For builders: this will accelerate state-level regulation of compute and electricity. For investors: expect margins in inference compute to compress as these sweetheart deals face public scrutiny.
Stargate infrastructure is hitting friction. A force majeure notice is Oracle hedging its bet that the New Mexico facility won't come online on time, which signals either construction delays or uncertainty about the broader buildout timeline. For investors tracking data center capacity bets, this is a yellow flag on when frontier model inference actually scales beyond existing infrastructure. For builders, assume GPU scarcity extends further than you're planning for.