Ex-OpenAI researcher flags: SPV shills from six months ago are now selling you data centers
suchenzang · x · 2026-10-04
Will Manidis points out that many of the people shilling high-fee OpenAI/Ant SPVs six months ago have pivoted to selling powered data centers. Susan Zhang amplifies with 'don't hate the players, hate the game' — framing it as a structural feature of the AI compute hype cycle rather than a few bad actors.
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