Pantera Capital Sees Power Shortages Bolstering Data Center Pricing Power

• Pantera Capital’s AI compute analysis sees power and GPU shortages sustaining outsized margins for data centers and specialized cloud providers.
• Data centers appear to be under-earning, suggesting uncontracted capacity has the greatest pricing upside while power remains the binding constraint.
• Specialized cloud providers face longer-term margin pressure as GPU availability improves, with low prices and availability outweighing service quality.
• A 40% token price cut would leave standalone inference providers breaking even; vertically integrated hyperscalers would retain 70% incremental EBITDA margins.
• Each gigawatt requires an estimated $41 billion investment, potentially generating $44 billion in annual inference revenue at 60% utilization.

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