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re: Alan Greenspan dead at 100

Posted by auisssa on 6/23/26 at 7:41 am to
129 when adjusted for inflation

re: RED! GREEN!! RED! GREEN!!

Posted by auisssa on 6/23/26 at 7:39 am to
Yea, I just dumped my bonus in yesterday. Happy it was on a red day. Oh well, it always comes back. But would have been nice to start with 8% more shares today.
Also:

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That close-up makes me lean more toward LiDAR, but I still can't confidently say it's Ouster.

A few observations:

The silver cylindrical unit underneath the mount looks very much like a spinning 360° LiDAR form factor.

The black box above it appears to contain additional sensors.

The checkerboard-looking pattern is something often used for camera calibration targets during sensor validation.

The entire assembly looks like a sensor calibration/ground-truth rig, not something intended for production use.

Why I'm hesitant to call it Ouster:

Ouster's OS-series sensors usually have a more recognizable ribbed/finned housing and a distinct appearance from the side.

This image is blurry enough that key identifying features are lost.

It could be a survey-grade LiDAR from another manufacturer mounted in a custom bracket.

If I were forced to put odds on it:

LiDAR sensor of some kind: 85%
Ground-truth / validation equipment: 90%+
Specifically Ouster: 30-50%
Evidence Tesla is switching to LiDAR for production autonomy: <5%

For OUST investors, the most interesting part isn't whether Tesla is using LiDAR on the truck. It's whether Tesla is using third-party LiDAR for data collection and validation at scale. That would indirectly validate the usefulness of LiDAR even while Tesla continues to pursue a vision-only production system.
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Who knows, keep in mind Elon said lidarr was useless for self driving.


I was wondering the same thing so ran it through gpt:

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What you're seeing is not necessarily LiDAR being added to the production vehicle. The post even says "ground truthing equipment," which is different.

The likely explanation:

Tesla often equips test vehicles with external sensors (including LiDAR, high-precision GPS, cameras, and mapping equipment).
Those sensors collect extremely accurate measurements of the environment.

Engineers then compare what the Tesla camera-only system thought it saw against what the external sensors measured.

The LiDAR data acts as the "ground truth" during development and validation.

Think of it like this:

A student takes a test without a calculator.

The teacher uses a calculator to verify the answers.

The student isn't using the calculator, but the calculator is still useful.

This wouldn't contradict Musk's anti-LiDAR stance because he has primarily argued against using LiDAR on production vehicles for autonomous driving, not against using it as a development or validation tool.
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and little Nicky quick.


Amazing what they are doing with hip replacement now
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So I’ll ask Gemini, what’s a reasonable revenue estimate based on 5GW


Ran it through Claude as well. Claude thinks it'll be 4GW but has similar price ranges:

Where Nebius actually stands
Current state: 2026 revenue guidance of $3.0B–$3.4B, with $7B–$9B ARR exit rate (sec) , against contracted power guidance that's risen from >1GW to >2.5GW to >3GW to now >4GW (sec) . Market cap is $70.69B (Robinhood) on 253.9M shares (Morningstar) at $291/share (Robinhood) .
So Nebius is tracking toward ~4GW contracted, not 5GW, and importantly almost none of that is "active" yet — they expect to reach 800 MW to 1 GW of connected power by the end of 2026 (sec) , with the rest coming online over 2027 and into 2028. Contracted ? live. That gap matters a lot for a 3-year projection.

Building the 3-year case (year-end 2029)
Using the framework from before, but anchored to Nebius's real trajectory rather than a generic 5GW hyperscaler:
If Nebius gets ~4-5GW connected and substantially monetized by 2029 (plausible if the Pennsylvania site and other buildouts land on schedule), and using the $10-15B revenue-per-GW-equivalent logic from earlier:

Revenue: roughly $35-55B (this is a big if — it assumes high utilization, not just construction completion)
At 25% net margin: $9-14B net income
At 20-25x earnings (a "matured hyperscaler" multiple, since by 2029 the market would likely no longer pay 70x+ for Nebius given slower growth): $180-350B market cap

Per share on ~280-320M shares (assuming some dilution from capital raises, which the model notes will require significant equity and debt raises to fund the huge capital expenditure (Morningstar) ): roughly $550-1,200/share

That's a wide range, and honestly the spread reflects real uncertainty, not just rounding. The key swing factors: whether contracted GW actually converts to active, monetized capacity on schedule; whether 25% margins are achievable at scale given Microsoft/Meta deals are likely low margin (Morningstar) ; and whether the market still assigns growth multiples or reverts to mature-infra multiples by 2029.

I'd treat this as a back-of-envelope scenario, not a forecast — three years is a long time for a company whose guidance has moved 4x in under a year.
Sounds like a 7 cylinder hybrid.
Sort of...Grok's response:

**Nebius is expanding from GPU-heavy AI cloud into full-stack CPU capacity.**

In the podcast, Ben Bajarin (post talking to mgmt) means they're adding serious CPU infrastructure — specifically deploying NVIDIA Vera CPUs (purpose-built for agentic AI) alongside Rubin GPUs in their AI factories.

Why? Agentic AI needs massive high-core CPUs for orchestration, running code/agents, and inference — not just GPUs. Neo-clouds like Nebius have had a big CPU deficit vs hyperscalers. This + the expected AI memory tuck-in rounds out their platform.
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Not the result we wanted. Would like them to have been more competitive but I truly believe we have the right coach in place and this is a foundation type season. I think they’re only going to get better from here.


Agree with all of this. We weren't ready for the spotlight. Hopefully this is just the beginning. RTR!

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by auisssa on 6/13/26 at 4:26 pm to
I'm waiting until the long term shareholders are able to sell their shares. Might miss the rocketship but that's my strategy.
This is what Claude says:

Impact on Nebius Specifically
This is the key question. The threat is real but long-dated:

SpaceX's factory doesn't produce satellites until end of 2027 at earliest, with prototypes in early 2027

Commercial constellation scale is 2028–2029 at best

Nebius's Independence, MO campus actually accelerates in 2028–2029 — the same window
SpaceX's interchangeable compute payload could mean Nvidia chips in orbit, which would actually benefit Nvidia (Nebius's backer) too

The more immediate impact is competitive narrative pressure — orbital compute creates a ceiling on how aggressively investors will value long-duration terrestrial infrastructure like Nebius's, since the market is now pricing in a potential paradigm shift.

But operationally, Nebius has locked in $20B+ in customer contracts that won't evaporate overnight.

re: Spencer Pratt says he ain’t done

Posted by auisssa on 6/12/26 at 2:00 pm to
Effin kill me part is from Ozark show
I feel like they are suing because it "feels wrong" to them. Not that anything illegal happened.

Oxmoor Valley residents expand lawsuit over Nebius AI factory, target $90M Milan Parkway land flip

Oxmoor Valley neighbors who first sued to stop construction of a massive Nebius AI data center are now expanding their case, accusing a web of companies of flipping the Milan Parkway site through multiple transactions in about 24 hours to inflate the project’s land cost on paper.

In an amended class-action complaint filed May 25 in Jefferson County Circuit Court, plaintiffs Madelyn Greene and David Butler keep their original claim: that Birmingham violated its own zoning laws when it allowed a 300-megawatt “AI factory” and related power infrastructure to move forward on roughly 79 acres near Lakeshore Parkway
Everything you said is accurate. There has been a lawsuit filed about how the property was bought/sold/bought/sold. The idea is that it changed hands within the span of minutes and was sold for significantly more each time.

My feeling is that the strategy will be to try and kill it with various lawsuits to just keep delaying and delaying. But up to this point all zoning requirements have been met. But there's a lot of pissed off people. And over-the-mountain people have some deep pockets.

Hopefully it's all just noise. But I can't say I'm not worried.
Man this Birmingham (Hoover) AI factory is a heavyweight fight at this point. A win for us for now but there will be more lawsuits filed.

Birmingham passes data center ordinance after hours-long public hearing


Yea, anybody have a screenshot they can share? Thinking of riding over.
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The left says it’s far right extremism.


Funded by the SPLC.
Not sure these words have ever been said in the history of man but: Im ready for a muddy arse dog pile.
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What was the alternative?


Stay out and move to P2. It's Monoco. I'll take my chances on an older set of tires vs staying behind somebody.
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Leclerc didn't have any ill effects for the 2 second wait


Well he was running net-2nd before the stop. The double stack / letting Hamilton serve his penalty pretty much meant he wasn't going to finish P2.