Chamath dismisses Burry's 'cooking the books' accusation against hyperscalers like Meta, arguing their business models are too strong to need accounting manipulation and that ongoing kernel/chip improvements genuinely extend hardware utilization.
The business models of these companies are just far too good for them to get to the point of having exhausted every other operational tactic that then they have to cook the books. These are not the 7 companies that are going to cook the” ⚑
Friedberg argues that Meta's extension of depreciation schedules for data center hardware is justified by real-world evidence of 7-8 year old TPUs/GPUs running at 100% utilization, meaning reported earnings are not inflated and Burry's short thesis is wrong.
Everyone says the same thing, that these 7- and 8-year-old TPUs and GPUs that are sitting in the data centers are still being used, and they're being used at 100% utilization. So that actually justifies and validates the depreciation” ⚑