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The Infrastructure Behind Intelligence: Why AI's Next Bottleneck Isn't Talent—It's Power
In the second quarter of 2025, the world’s leading AI companies poured over $100 billion into data centers, compute infrastructure, and...

Rich Washburn
2 days ago2 min read


Florida’s Five-Year Data Center Review: The New Regulatory Reality
As Florida pivots from “permanent” tax incentives to a conditional, five-year compliance model, data-center operators face a turning...

Rich Washburn
Jul 12 min read


Sparks of Insight: Bridging Power and Compute with Jimmy Hayes
I always walk away from conversations with new perspectives, and this morning’s chat with Jimmy Hayes at Data Power Supply was no...

Rich Washburn
Jun 302 min read


Charging Forward: Senate Bill 6, Midwest Incentives, and the Private Equity Engine Behind AI’s Infrastructure
As data centers cement their place at the heart of the AI and cloud revolutions, Texas and the broader United States are navigating the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 304 min read


The AI-Compute Power Surge: How Chips, Data Centers & Power Grids Are Colliding
We’re entering a pivotal era where AI is not just transforming industries—it’s fueling an infrastructure revolution. At the heart of this...

Rich Washburn
Jun 283 min read


Vanishing Power: Seizing the Final Natural Gas Turbines for AI Infrastructure
A stealth scramble is underway in the global energy supply chain. For AI infrastructure builders, the window to secure high-capacity...

Rich Washburn
Jun 272 min read


Race for Compute: How GPT‑5 Is Fueling a New Infrastructure Arms Race
Multimodal AI, autonomous agents, and trillion-parameter models are coming—and enterprise demand for high-capacity GPUs is outpacing...

Rich Washburn
Jun 173 min read


Theranos 2.0? Why the Ghost of Holmes Still Haunts Health Tech
In the aftermath of one of Silicon Valley’s most infamous frauds, the biotech sector finds itself confronting an uncomfortable echo....

Rich Washburn
Jun 43 min read


Tariff Shockwaves: Trump’s Middle-Class Tax Gambit and the New Investment Frontier
President Trump’s proposed income-tax elimination for Americans earning under $200,000 signals a structural pivot in U.S. economic...

EC
Apr 283 min read


Provoked Power Plays: Navigating the 2025 Chip Squeeze
The global semiconductor supply chain is under renewed strain as geopolitical tensions, monetary shifts and surging demand converge to...

Rich Washburn
Apr 263 min read


Beyond the Tariff Wall: Strategic Implications of a Post‑China Supply Chain
With U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods now reaching up to 245 percent , the world’s largest trading relationship has crossed a structural...
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Apr 193 min read


From Private Potential to Public Powerhouse
Why Micro‑Cap Founders Choose the IPO—and How Eliakim Capital Makes It Happen Micro‑cap companies (< $500 million market cap) punch far...

EC
Apr 192 min read


Capital Markets’ $3.7 Trillion Dilemma: Unlocking Growth Through Quality Deal Flow
The global private capital market faces a paradoxical challenge: a record $3.7 trillion in uninvested funds, commonly referred to as...

EC
Jan 233 min read


Navigating the Future of IPOs and Generative AI: Trends, Insights, and Predictions
The global financial landscape is on the brink of transformation as IPO markets, generative AI innovation, and M&A activity converge to...

EC
Jan 233 min read


Transforming Financial Futures: The Eliakim Capital Edge
In today’s dynamic financial world, where challenges meet opportunities at every turn, Eliakim Capital serves as a trusted partner in...

EC
Jan 233 min read
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