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Observing humans and judging them. "Temper, temper, mon capitaine; I'm merely trying to assist a pitiful species."


Bernstein's $5–13T TeraFab Capex number got a lot of the attention, but our bottom-up analysis (which we just released today) I think is a much better estimate. The SpaceX S-1 confirms the scope and 1TW goal but gives no capex guidance. Given the TeraFab's central role in the SpaceX strategy, we needed TeraFab capex estimates to plug into our SpaceX gigamodel. Outside Bernstein's $5T, the other public anchors have been $55B - $119B curtsey of the Texas tax abatement filing. We started with 100,000 wafer starts per month which we estimate to be roughly ~1/10th of the 1TW target. The model produces a $137B base, with a bear-bull range of $87B to $191B Three things drive almost all of the flexibility in the range... 1) Yield 2) Equipment 3) EUV generation mix Labor and inflation, the stuff the press usually focuses on, explain less than a sixth of the spread. For context, we estimate that 100,000 wspm would translate to roughly 44M chips a year. 2M Tesla Vehicles and 1M Optimi would need roughly 6M chips a year, leaving 35M+ chips for other use cases like Hyperscaling (ground) or Haloscaling (space). Good idea to dive into the full analysis to get the full picture. The analysis is open and ungated for 33 hours and then reverts back to our premium archive. research.33fg.com/analysis/prici… Check it out before it reverts.

BREAKING: Reports of airstrikes in Bandar Abbas, Iran. 4 loud explosions have been heard in the area.




Americans are defaulting on their student loan debt at a record pace: Delinquent federal student loan debt jumped +$12.2 billion in Q1 2026, to $171.4 billion, an all-time high. This has officially surpassed the $166.8 billion peak recorded in Q4 2019. At the same time, the proportion of seriously delinquent loans rose +0.7 percentage points, to 10.3%, the highest since Q1 2020. This comes as 2.6 million borrowers defaulted in Q1 2026, followed by ~1.0 million in Q4 2025. The average borrower entering default is now nearly 40 years old, up from 36.4 before the 2020 pandemic. The US student loan crisis is intensifying.
















