What podcasts say about Steve Hou

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What Steve Hou has said on podcasts

52 statements · 23 positive · 19 negative · 5 mixed · 5 neutral

on Data CenterPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Existing data-center activity currently has positive margins.
“when you ask the question of whether or not data centers are profitable, it's a bit like looking at this rolling profitability of the labs. On the one hand, the existing activity, the margins are all positive.”
Listen at 2:19
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AI token pricesPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Falling token prices can indicate healthy AI proliferation and increased usage.
“this is exactly what AI proliferation should look like. and prices of tokens coming down and people using the cheaper models to do a lot more stuff”
Listen at 4:36
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on GPU rental ratesPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
GPU rental rates are currently surging.
“the rental rates of gpus are surging”
Listen at 4:57
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Open AI modelsNeutralOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Users are substituting cheaper open models for expensive proprietary models.
“there is still a, within the sample that we're observing, you know, a substitution away from expensive proprietary models towards the cheaper, the open models”
Listen at 6:48
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Anthropic modelsPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Anthropic models have achieved substantial enterprise adoption.
“the S1 is showing an extraordinary amount of enterprise adoption of Enthropic models”
Listen at 7:03
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Hyperscaler CapExNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Hyperscalers are unlikely to keep raising CapEx without stock-market rewards.
“It's hard to imagine that they will keep raising capex if they're not seeing that activity being rewarded by the stock market.”
Listen at 9:06
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Hyperscaler CapExNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Hyperscalers will likely exercise greater CapEx caution or discipline.
“there's going to be, you know, some degree of caution or discipline, you know, on the side”
Listen at 10:55
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on GPU rental marketNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Rising on-demand GPU rental rates indicate a GPU shortage.
“GPU rental rates on demand is going up, right? And that speaks to shortage”
Listen at 11:34
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on GPU rental demandPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Current demand for GPU rentals is extremely strong.
“at the moment all we can see is that uh uh demand for uh gpu rental is extremely strong”
Listen at 12:34
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Data-center expansionNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Power and land availability constrain data-center expansion.
“the constraint is on the physical side of actually, can you actually find that power and land and whatnot?”
Listen at 14:04
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Data-center componentsNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Data-center component costs are experiencing extraordinary inflation.
“the underlying components are seeing extraordinary inflation”
Listen at 15:35
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Interest ratesNeutralOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Interest rates alone are unlikely to stop AI investment.
“I actually don't really think the interest rate itself is going to stop anyone here per se.”
Listen at 20:03
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AI economy and Federal ReserveNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
AI-driven demand and inflation could make the Fed an enemy of AI investment.
“if the fact really comes to see that the ai economy to the extent that is strong and is holding up the economy and creating another level of aggregate demand um and creating inflation that it becomes directly an enemy”
Listen at 20:36
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Bond market expectations for AINegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Bond markets have not believed AI would produce miraculous productivity.
“the bond market was never AI-pilled, much less AGI-pilled”
Listen at 22:24
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Memory and compute companiesNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Low valuations reflect expectations that memory and compute earnings are unsustainable.
“if people believe that the earnings cannot be sustained, that eventually this is going to come to an end”
Listen at 23:47
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Compute rental ratesPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
An upward-sloping compute rental curve indicates rising future rental rates.
“the upper sloping curve is actually indicative of expectations of rising future rental rates”
Listen at 33:05
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on GPU residual valuesPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Observed GPU residual values exceed accelerated-depreciation assumptions.
“this is actually all lying well above what would have been implied right by such depreciation schedule”
Listen at 35:06
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on GPU depreciationMixedOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
GPU depreciation is occurring more slowly than some expected.
“depreciation is happening, just maybe not as quickly as some people have thought”
Listen at 37:21
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AI token servingPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Newer chips currently produce tokens that sell above production cost.
“if in fact you know newer chips are so much better at producing tokens that uh you're certainly producing you know those tokens are certainly selling well above cost”
Listen at 41:07
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Token servingPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Token-serving margins are currently positive.
“margins for serving tokens is very much positive”
Listen at 42:10
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AnthropicPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Anthropic has strong enterprise adoption and customer retention.
“they have very strong enterprise adoption, and they have very strong retention”
Listen at 47:06
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AnthropicNegativeOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Anthropic may face internal cannibalization if Opus 5.5 dominates usage.
“they do suffer the potential risk that Opus 5.5 is just so good that nobody ever thinks about using Fable”
Listen at 48:01
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Enterprise AI spendingMixedOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Low current AI spending can support either bullish or bearish forecasts.
“you can read it as a bullish statement. You can read it as kind of a bearish fact.”
Listen at 49:05
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on American AI modelsPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Convenience and low prices reduce incentives to switch from American AI models.
“there is a certain degree of inconvenience, right? It's already so easy for you to click a button and it's not that expensive for you to be using the American models.”
Listen at 51:03
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Technology ecosystemsPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
User experience and ecosystem integration create technology switching costs.
“It is the user experience, right? It is the seamless experience of being able to use your MacBook, your iPhone, be able to text your friends with blue bubbles and whatnot.”
Listen at 52:29
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AI agentsNeutralOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
AI agents can make users largely indifferent to the underlying model.
“agents actually are making you almost model agnostic”
Listen at 53:47
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on AI personalizationPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
AI systems may develop a moat through accumulated user context and personalization.
“there seems to be some mode i think the mode lies in the fact that over time your ai is going to know get to know you better”
Listen at 54:47
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Enterprise AI model switchingMixedOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Large-scale cost savings could motivate enterprises to switch AI models, but scalability is uncertain.
“if the economics is there uh especially if you use a such large scale uh the question the question is just you know Does that actually really scale out?”
Listen at 55:45
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Marvell-Lumentum transactionPositiveOct 28, 2026· Monetary Matters with Jack Farley
Marvell’s reported Lumentum interest signals confidence in optics’ future.
“That shows you somebody having conviction in the future being optics”
Listen at 1:01:55
Open the episode · Why Compute Prices Are Still Rising | Steve Hou of Silicon Data on GPU Rental Indices, Fed Meeting, and Anthropic S-1 (LIVE)
on Artificial IntelligencePositiveOct 26, 2026· Merryn Talks Money
AI will transform society regardless of the investment cycle’s outcome.
“regardless of how this whole investment cycle transpires, going to be a transformative technology that's going to shape and change society and our world beyond recognition.”
Listen at 5:54
Open the episode · Can the AI Boom Survive a Margin Squeeze?

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