Compute financing risk will fall to hedge funds and commodity traders, not private credit
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-08
Analyzing who will underwrite compute financing risk: traditional private credit funds avoid volatile residual values, merchant exposure, technological obsolescence, and weak recovery data. The willing takers are commodities/energy traders, hedge funds, and family offices — investors used to pricing volatility rather than eliminating it.
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