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Research noteCP-2026-0108

Power, not silicon, is the binding constraint

Accelerator supply loosened. Grid connections did not.

7 minDePIN Compute & Bandwidth

Lead times on accelerators shortened through the year. Lead times on getting megawatts to a site did not, and in several markets they lengthened.

This favours networks that aggregate existing distributed capacity over those planning new concentrated sites — a structural advantage that has little to do with software.

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