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The AI party is getting less hypothetical
For the past year, the big hang-up was simple: were hyperscalers just burning cash on AI, or was this going to turn into an actual business? JPMorgan’s Harlan Sur says the vibe is shifting from “trust us” to “here’s the return on investment.”
Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are all signaling that AI demand is still strong and that the economics are getting better. In other words, the spending machine may not be slowing down anytime soon — because now it has receipts.
Why Sandisk is in the mix
Here’s where it gets interesting for you if you own SNDK: more durable AI capex is a long tailwind for memory and storage suppliers. Sur says memory is still one of the tightest bottlenecks in the AI supply chain, and Amazon has already pointed to higher memory costs as part of its rising capex.
That matters because cloud companies seem willing to swallow those costs if it means keeping enough infrastructure online for AI workloads. Translation: if the models keep growing up, someone has to keep feeding them storage.
The investor takeaway
JPMorgan’s case isn’t that AI spending is exploding again — it’s that the spending is becoming more rational, which may actually be better. When the economics improve, the investment cycle can last longer.
For Sandisk, that could mean:
- stronger demand for enterprise SSDs
- better pricing power in a tight memory market
- a longer runway than the usual “AI hype, then hangover” trade
Big picture: if AI capex is turning from a story into a spreadsheet, Sandisk might be one of the sneaky beneficiaries.