06 · CIRCULAR FINANCING

The cloud industry bet on two loss-makers

ProviderBacklogFrom OpenAI + Anthropic
Microsoft$627B49%
Oracle$553B54% (OpenAI alone)
Google$467.6B43% (Anthropic)
Amazon$464B51%

$1.05 trillion in committed cloud spend — 43-54% of every major provider future revenue — rests on two customers losing billions per quarter. Oracle $300B OpenAI compute deal comes with an SEC-filed warning: customer nonpayment risk.

Sources: company filings; Forbes Jul 4 2026
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