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Structural analysis of Meta as the buyer of AI compute that holds its own credit: $83.0 billion of capital expenditure in nine months against $96.9 billion of operating cash, about $824.9 billion of leases and commitments, residual value guarantees of up to $41.4 billion written on its own name, and the $37.5 billion equity offering that three chip suppliers asked to join. Grounded in primary filings.
Cape Fear Advisors added Meta to the shelf in October 2026, reading it as the AI compute buyer that holds the credit: building a full stack for one customer, itself, funded from operating cash, its own debt and its own equity, with its own name on the guarantees. Meta also appears in the cross-company work, among the six balance sheets of “The Trillion That Was Never Hidden” and on the ladder of “Circular Financing and the AI Bubble.”
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