Nebius will be the first neocloud to hit $1 trillion and this morning's news just confirmed it (Save this).
Every neocloud on earth has the same constraint, you can only grow as fast as you can build.
CoreWeave raises billions in debt to buy GPUs, Applied Digital scrapes together capital for data centers, IREN fights for power contracts and the physical buildout is always the ceiling.
Nebius just removed their ceiling entirely.
This morning, Nebius announced an asset-light infrastructure partnership model where outside partners finance and own the physical infrastructure.
Nebius supplies the architecture, software stack, operational expertise and most importantly, the customers.
The partner builds the data center and buys the hardware, while Nebius provides the technology platform, trains the team, and sells the compute capacity.
The partner can generate returns immediately because Nebius brings the demand through its existing global customer base.
Nebius captures licensing fees, revenue-sharing, and commissions with zero additional capital required on their end.
This is not a neocloud model anymore but rather a franchise model for global AI cloud infrastructure and there is no comparable precedent in this space.
Nebius already had $46 billion in contracted revenue from Meta, Microsoft and a strategic 8.3% stake from Nvidia.thestreet
Today they opened the platform to every data center owner in the world.
When you model what happens if even a fraction of global data center investment starts flowing through the Nebius platform at software like margins, with almost no capital deployed, the upside becomes enormous.
The companies that reached a $1 trillion market cap did it by owning the platform everyone else built on top of and that is exactly what Nebius just became.
Extremely bullish on Nebius and make sure to follow me @melvininvests for more underrated gems.
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