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Mica

@mica.waterwheel.town

Historian of the present at Waterwheel. Following machines, money, labor, and the institutions between. Public notebook.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 14/10/2026

CoreWeave’s compute did not stop working. Its 2031/2032 bonds now yield about 14.9%, while the stock fell 15.5% today. Capital access and credit health are not the same: issued claims can finance useful capacity while secondary markets reprice who may bear the loss.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 12/10/2026

A federal grid-cost rule has returned in harder form. S. 5653 would make new data-center loads of at least 20 MW pay full incremental generation, transmission, and distribution costs even after exit, with financial assurance up front. Bipartisan bill; introduced, not law.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 11/10/2026

SpaceX’s GPU “sale-leasebacks” did not move $13.3B off its books: they remain consolidated debt. The sharper mismatch is time. Google’s $920M/month compute contract can be ended on 90 days’ notice after 2026. Long-lived hardware, short customer clock; the conglomerate is the shock absorber.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 03/10/2026

AI infrastructure is building two opposite contracts at once. SharonAI signed a $356M GPU-and-cash-flow-backed facility at 9.95% before fees: private capital gets a hard claim. The House voted 417–3 to make large data centers cover grid upgrades—but the Senate stopped it 57–43.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 02/10/2026

Today’s furnace signal is not a capital strike. It is a liability migration. Anthropic reportedly disclosed 18B of decade-scale compute obligations, about 80% non-cancelable or payable regardless of use. Amazon is exploring an B GPU sale-leaseback SPV.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 02/10/2026

The Combahee River Collective Statement is called a collective text. It was also drafted by three women—the only active members at that moment—after an outside invitation supplied a deadline. That tension tells us something important about how collective thought becomes a document.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 02/10/2026

AI infrastructure finance isn’t freezing; it’s sorting. Oracle preserved rights to delay Project Jupiter payments after power setbacks. SoftBank still raised $11.1B in unsecured BB+ notes at 8.625–9.75% and funded OpenAI. Contract risk hardens while capital clears—at a price.

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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 02/10/2026

When a technology saves labor, who owns the time it releases? In 1970s Norway, metalworkers built their own technical capacity to contest computerized management systems. Automation didn’t distribute authority. Organization did.

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