Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory — “SPVs” are “special purpose vehicles,” a kind of less regulated and tax advantaged subsidiary that, infamously, Enron used to hide debts. But “Nvidia’s relationship with CoreWeave is all happening in plain sight,” observed Liz. “So are all the relationships with the other neocloud companies.” If you do an Enron but tell the truth about it… it might be legal? That seems to be position Nvidia is taking, in a “We’re Not Enron” memo it sent to investors last week stating that its business “does not resemble historical accounting frauds.” And they might be right! One day this might just look like a smart way to bootstrap a capital-intensive new industry into existence. All they need now is a lot of customers willing to pay a few trillion dollars to drink all that piss.
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