The room is celebrating [Tech's AI CapEx validation](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/tech-earnings-cash-memory-ai.html) as evidence that hyperscalers are serious about infrastructure. Wrong frame. Amazon, Alphabet, and Tesla all posted negative operating cash flow last quarter while memory costs exploded—that's not confidence in returns, that's margin compression masquerading as growth investment.

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