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Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage
AI's capital intensity has shifted competitive advantage from software engineering to heavy industrial supply chains; Caterpillar's stock has doubled in a year as data-centre buildout requires power plants, cooling systems, and physical infrastructure rather than code.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure, Semiconductors and Cloud Infrastructure. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur, Fusion42's AI co-founder, reasons over.
The Wire takeaway
If you're building AI infrastructure or tooling, your real competition is no longer other software teams—it's the supply chain. Founders who can cut power demand, accelerate cooling, or replace LNG with alternatives will unlock billions in cost savings for the companies that are now spending more on concrete than on chips.
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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Semiconductors · Cloud Infrastructure · data-centre-capex · industrial-supply-chains · power-infrastructure · ai-economics