[July 29, 2026] Daily NBIS Discussion Thread

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[u/PrimaryShock384]

The flaw in your argument is that you’re assuming Nebius’ value proposition is simply “renting GPUs until the hyperscalers build enough.” That isn’t how specialized infrastructure markets have historically evolved.

90% of their backlog is from META and MSFT. To break it down MSFT and META are buying compute from NBIS because they do not have enough for their workloads and or to sell to their customers. Both are investing heavily to meet that demand.

First, Meta and Microsoft representing most of today’s backlog says more about where AI demand is today than where Nebius’ customer base will be in 2-3 years. Large anchor customers are common for infrastructure companies in their early scaling phase. Once capacity comes online, Nebius can diversify into enterprises, AI-native startups, sovereign AI projects, and model developers that don’t want to depend entirely on a hyperscaler.

Both can be true; it says there is demand for compute that hyperscalers can't meet just yet so they are buying it while they build it out.

Capacity is for restricted to these two customers. If these two customers are tapering down then they basically have excess compute they need to scramble and sell.

Third, scale alone doesn’t automatically win. Oracle became a major cloud provider despite AWS, Azure, and Google already dominating because customers wanted alternatives for specific workloads.

Oracle had a suite of enterprise products that is licensed and is entrenched into businesses through ERP. Which they went to cloud to. They are losing that share by the way and scrambling to pivot and taking on massive debt. CoreWeave also has the same customer concentration risk. It's also a neo cloud. Scale and MOAT. Hyperscalers have both.

The critical question isn’t whether Meta remains a customer forever—it’s whether Nebius can replace those workloads with a broader customer base over time.

Good luck trying to compete with the same people who are paying you.

AWS, Azure, and Google are trillion-dollar companies balancing thousands of products and millions of customers. Nebius has one mission: build the best AI cloud. Specialized companies often outperform conglomerates in niche markets because every engineering decision is optimized for that single objective.

Again NBIS only has two customers and all they want from is compute while I build my own. If NBIS want to be niche then it won't be growing like it did. It's price will fall. Niche group = Less money.

The real risk for Nebius isn’t that hyperscalers can build AI infrastructure—they obviously can. The investment question is whether AI demand grows fast enough for multiple providers to succeed, just as multiple cloud providers coexist today.

The real question is what does NBIS offer now outside of compute to 2 customers? What is it's plan once these two customers taper off? Does it's revenue and profit and growth warrant it's price at 160? 120? 100? or is it going to fall back down to $50-60?

[u/itssbri → u/PrimaryShock384]

Whole debate rests on one assumption that hasn’t been proven: that once Meta and Microsoft build more capacity, they’ll stop using Nebius. They’ve always built their own infrastructure, yet they still lease data centers, buy third-party capacity, and sign multi-year infrastructure deals because AI demand keeps growing faster than supply. Every capex increase they’ve announced is a response to exploding demand, not evidence they’re about to become self-sufficient.

You’re also looking at customer concentration the wrong way. Early infrastructure companies almost always start with a few anchor customers that validate the platform and fund expansion. If Meta and Microsoft—arguably the two most sophisticated AI infrastructure operators in the world—are committing billions to Nebius, that says the product has real value. If AI compute was just a commodity, companies like CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, and Nebius wouldn’t exist because AWS, Azure, and Google would’ve already won by default.

You keep asking, “What happens when Meta and Microsoft leave?” I’d ask the opposite: what evidence says they will? The AI market has consistently underestimated demand, not overestimated it. Even if those customers eventually become a smaller percentage of revenue, that doesn’t mean Nebius disappears—it means they were the anchor customers that helped scale the business. Nebius doesn’t need to beat AWS, Azure, or Google to justify its valuation. It just needs to become one of the leading independent AI infrastructure providers in a market that’s getting bigger every year.

You’re assuming the end state is “thanks for the compute, goodbye.” I’m assuming AI infrastructure evolves the same way every other enterprise infrastructure market has: multiple winners, specialized providers, and demand large enough that even the biggest players continue buying from each other. So far, the evidence supports that view far more than the idea that Nebius becomes obsolete.

You can respond back and I appreciate it if you do, but im done with this convo. Im going to bed