Nscale revenue up 1,252% yet loses over $1 billion in six months
TansuYegen · x · 2026-09-20
AI cloud infrastructure firm Nscale grew revenue 1,252% year over year, yet still lost more than $1 billion in six months.
The author frames it as the AI infrastructure boom in one sentence: demand is extraordinary, but so is the capital required to serve it — building the roads of the AI economy could be enormously valuable and enormously expensive.
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