Issue #14Apr 3, 2026
Weekly Brief #14: the compute bottleneck got more political
This week was about energy, procurement, and the strategic position of companies that can still buy scale.
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Weekly Brief #14: the compute bottleneck got more political
This week was about energy, procurement, and the strategic position of companies that can still buy scale.
Apr 3, 2026
energyPower access tightened around new data center commitments.
infrastructureCloud vendors and GPU specialists continued to compete on capacity guarantees.
dataGovernance and lineage work kept moving into enterprise feature sets.
llmsModel vendors focused on distribution and enterprise lock-in.
applicationsTooling companies kept pushing model selection lower into the stack.
Founders should treat supply access as a moat multiplier, not a background detail.
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