Oct 22 : Investors betting against US neocloud and data center companies have raked in $6 billion in paper profits so far this month, after fears their debt-fueled AI buildout was becoming unsustainable sparked a selloff. Short interest in CoreWeave, IREN, Nebius Group, Applied Digital and Core Scientific ran
Investors betting on the fall of US cloud service providers and data center operators recorded about $6 billion in unrealized gains in October after the market began to question the sustainability of debt-financed artificial intelligence investments.