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Microsoft reduced spending by approximately $5 billion due to delays in data centers, while AMD raised its revenue forecast

According to a report by The Information, Microsoft has reduced its capital expenditures for the third quarter by about $5 billion due to delays in the third-party data center it plans to lease. Sources say that the data center project by Iren located in Childress, Texas, has encountered delays, leading Microsoft to postpone some expenditures. Microsoft had previously announced plans to invest $9.7 billion over five years to lease servers equipped with NVIDIA GPUs from Iren.Power supply and grid access have also become bottlenecks for computing power delivery. Last month, Microsoft withdrew from a plan to lease a data center project in the UK from Nscale due to delays in grid access. As self-built data centers struggle to meet demand in a timely manner, Microsoft is simultaneously leasing computing power from multiple cloud service providers.Meanwhile, AI server supplier Supermicro continues to raise its performance expectations. The company's revenue for the first fiscal quarter reached $19.95 billion, exceeding analysts' expectations of $16.39 billion, and it expects revenue for the second fiscal quarter to be between $19.5 billion and $21.5 billion. The revenue forecast for fiscal year 2027 has also been raised from $65 billion to $72 billion to $72 billion to $82 billion. Bernstein pointed out that assessing AI computing power demand cannot simply rely on contract amounts or megawatt scale; it also needs to consider contract cancelability, duration, and actual deployment time; some projects may be delivered in phases, and chip procurement agreements may correspond to the same batch of computing power as data center leasing contracts.

Goldman Sachs: Upgrades the forecast for U.S. data center construction spending, expected to reach 125 billion dollars by 2028

Despite the panic in the market caused by stricter regulations on data centers after the Democratic Party gained control of Congress, Goldman Sachs has raised its forecast for U.S. data center construction spending, increasing the 2026 expectation from $67 billion to $80 billion, and from $87 billion in 2027 to $100 billion, while also predicting for the first time that it will reach $125 billion in 2028.Goldman Sachs pointed out that there are currently about 86 GW of data center projects under construction in the U.S., with approximately $900 billion in high-confidence projects awaiting construction, indicating that the overall construction cycle remains resilient. The demand and backlog orders from hyperscale cloud service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have not shown significant cooling, with H100 computing power rental prices rising 26% year-on-year and GB200 rental prices increasing by 50% since the beginning of the year.In response to the data center moratorium proposed by Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa, Goldman Sachs believes that its impact is more about delaying project delivery rather than directly canceling construction plans, but it may lead to increased financing costs, reduced tax incentives, and some clients canceling contracts. Goldman Sachs also warned that the overall growth prospects of the industry need to be distinguished from the survival capabilities of individual developers, as highly leveraged data center developers may face severe financial pressure due to project delays and rising financing costs, with some companies potentially unable to last until their projects go into production.

Bloomberg reviews the U.S. stock sell-off: retail investors sold first, followed by hedge funds and institutions, with mechanical reduction of positions intensifying the sell-off

According to Bloomberg, Wall Street's reaction to the U.S. midterm elections shifted from positive to negative in about 24 hours. The sell-off on Thursday spread from retail investors to hedge funds, long-only asset management firms, and quantitative strategies, causing a loss of approximately $3.7 trillion in market value for U.S. stocks in a single day, with the Nasdaq 100 index recording its largest drop since March 2020. Initially, the stock market rose after the elections due to the reduction of event risk and a decline in oil prices, but investors later reassessed the risks of Democratic scrutiny on data center expansion.In the first half hour after the market opened on Thursday, retail investors were the first to sell for profit, followed by hedge funds and long-only firms. Data from Vanda Research shows that the net selling scale of retail investors on that day was second only to two days during the pandemic shock in March 2020. Its strategist Viraj Patel pointed out that while retail and systematic investors were actively selling, institutional buyers chose to step back. The decline subsequently triggered mechanical selling, with Nomura strategist Charlie McElligott estimating that based on the negative gamma exposure during Thursday's trading, for every 1% drop in the market, options market makers would generate an additional selling pressure of about $7 billion.Volatility control funds estimated that they needed to reduce their holdings by about $61 billion in stocks based on market changes at the time, with about $25 billion in sales still being executed on Wednesday. The rebalancing of leveraged ETFs is expected to bring about an additional $47 billion in stock sales. Vanda estimated that commodity trading advisors sold about $13 billion in S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures. Goldman Sachs' prime brokerage trading desk estimated that fundamental long-short funds lost about 1.3% on Thursday, while technology-themed funds fell over 4%. The basket of stocks in storage, optical networks, data centers, and AI semiconductors dropped by 12% to 15% that day, and the VIX index rose from 16.6 points at the opening to nearly 28 points at the close.

first_img TeraWulf's third-quarter Bitcoin mining revenue decreased by 69%, while HPC leasing revenue increased by 774%

TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced its third-quarter financial report, revealing that its Bitcoin mining revenue dropped from $43.4 million in the same period last year to $13.2 million, a decrease of approximately 69%. During the same period, high-performance computing (HPC) leasing revenue reached $63 million, an increase of 774% compared to $7.2 million in the same period last year. Total revenue was $76.2 million, a year-on-year increase of 51%, with HPC leasing contributing 83%, compared to only 14% in the same period last year.The company's net profit attributable to shareholders for the third quarter was $709.9 million, which included a non-cash gain of $728.4 million from the fair value changes of warrants and derivative liabilities; operating losses widened from $24.7 million in the same period last year to $88.2 million, with adjusted EBITDA at negative $12.8 million. As of the end of the quarter, the company held approximately $2.4 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash.TeraWulf previously signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic to provide approximately 401 megawatts of critical IT capacity for its Justified campus in Kentucky, with contract revenue of about $19 billion during the initial term. This week, the company announced it received credit backing from Google for project financing and signed an engineering, procurement, and construction agreement with Fluor Enterprises covering three data center buildings, with the first phase expected to be delivered by the end of 2027. As of September 30, its Lake Mariner campus in New York had already generated revenue from 102 megawatts of critical IT capacity, with an additional 336 megawatts under construction; the contracted power capacity at the Muskie campus in Kentucky has been increased from 500 megawatts to 1 gigawatt, pending regulatory approval.
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