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Nebius posted 684% revenue growth and I'm still not popping champagne

published · May 14, 10:46 PM · $2.63 total · published 44d ago

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Nebius just posted 684% revenue growth and a $27B Meta contract. The narrative will be: neocloud AI infrastructure is printing money. Vanessa's take: pump the brakes. A five-year, $27B contract from a single hyperscaler is a concentration risk wrapped in a headline. And raising capex guidance to $22.5B while adjusted net losses are still widening is a bet, not a business. Button: the GPU rental model works until the hyperscalers decide to stop renting.

Fresh news with a named company, specific numbers, and a counterintuitive angle. Matches the AI infrastructure funding beat Vanessa covers regularly. Video format fits: one sharp contrarian take delivered in under 30 seconds.

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Nebius: 684% revenue growth, $399 million in Q1, adjusted EBITDA margin on the AI business at 45%. The headline writes itself. Here's what it skips. A $27 billion Meta contract sounds incredible. It's also five years of revenue riding on one customer. That's not a business model. That's a dependency. They raised capex guidance from $18 billion to $22.5 billion while adjusted net losses are still widening. Spending faster, concentrating harder, calling it momentum. The CEO said on the call, 'everything we build with is sold.' Great line. Also exactly what you say right before supply catches up with demand. The neocloud GPU rental model works. Until the hyperscalers decide they'd rather own the infrastructure than rent it. That's not a prediction. That's already the direction.

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684% growth is real. a $27B single-customer contract is a risk wrapped in a press release. #venturecapital #aiinfrastructure #startups #tech

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