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South Korea stock market already crashed due to AI?
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How AI will fail
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Here's a video to ponder the "success" of AI.
View: https://youtu.be/HXlcMbxzz0U?si=Jm0_c8wsddukaMLB
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AI made video, with an AI sponsor.
Commitment to lease compute is a form of debt of course, for the next 2 decades, per year it is not that much and you do not pay interest on this either.
If expenditure according to the video is still lower than just cash flow, why say it is draining the volt ? The fact that it is not over 100% is exceptional because they have such exceptional cash flow, in any other industry that would be the norm to spend more than cashflow.
They mostly stopped to buyback shares and grow the cash reserve to finance it, they are able too because of the blackrock-blue owl-pimco and other that want to invest in the play (via those SPV).
Car makers do this for their factories, airlines do this for planes, telecom do this for tower network, it is not special (people that never look at stuff like that are just looking at it for the first time, because it is fancy name and AI).
Wall street of course if not fooled by something an youtube video will tell us, everything goes into their valuation including all those deals and all their implications, is resumed here:
https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/sourceId/101652559
There is 2 think interesting in this video, according to the video
Big consolidater are:
) Spending less than cash flow still
) Everything they build is still considered to be quite profitable with positive margin
So everything according to the video is exceptionally great and nothing has to change, if like the video say new datacenter are still directly profitable like that by themselve in raw money.... you do not have yet to think do a still build barely-unprofitable one to build up some competitive advantage-not loose the edge to some long term calculator, that an easy yes.
Using the trick "generative AI" instead of AI in graph but not in talk to deceive ( it is not like a massive portion of the big tech pointed is the regular datacenter build out that is needed and would happened without GPT-3 or that generative AI is not now behind most of the giant traditional AI revenues that are content-ads)
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Incorrect. AI revenue is negative, extremely far in the red. AI revenue != total company revenue.
for some company it is hard to distinguish, almost all Meta revenues are a funnel down of their use of AI ( it is their capacity of retention by creating/proposing content of targetting ads, those 2 things have been the 2 big source of AI revenues of the last 10 years and is still the biggest source of revenues).
LLM chatbot/api revenues, that a subset of AI revenues (that not all of what amazon, meta, google, walmart, spaceX/Tesla do with AI). Anthropic have been positive revenues for this the last 2 quarters (they get so much revenues and competitive demand for compute is so high tha tthey are not able to spend enough to stay negative like they should be doing).
Speaking on one side on total AI spend out and the other LLM chatbot/API revenues subset of the AI world alone is a bit of a trick to create content on the subject, content creator do to sell you an AI product in the video above...
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They're not turning a profit from it, so no matter how you phrase it, they're still in the red from it.
Also related, as I already stated: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...e-blackouts-unless-they-bring-their-own-power
Also related, as I already stated: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...e-blackouts-unless-they-bring-their-own-power
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this facebook post a very long article on Micheal Burry, the guy who makes hundreds of million on short selling the MBS related stocks back in 2008. And on this article, Burry is shorting a good no. of names. Even if you don't agree w/ shorting AI stocks, have a look at his short selling list.
the real eye opener is near the end, where the writer of the article says:
this facebook post a very long article on Micheal Burry, the guy who makes hundreds of million on short selling the MBS related stocks back in 2008. And on this article, Burry is shorting a good no. of names. Even if you don't agree w/ shorting AI stocks, have a look at his short selling list.
the real eye opener is near the end, where the writer of the article says:
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Just FYI the crash in Korea was more due to leverage than AI in particular. Not trying to say that it means there isn't an AI bubble or anything, but the companies behind this market blow up have actually been having great profitability, because they aren't doing AI directly, they are selling the hardware and haven't done huge buildouts. Basically lots of people became enamored with a type of account that used leverage to get you 2x returns... the problem is that leverage makes downturns, even if temporary, much more problematic and increases the probability of you losing everything. If you want a decent (but long) video on it, Patrick Boyle has one that is pretty good.
So while it is AI related, it isn't really an AI market crash, it is people getting themselves in to leveraged positions that have to auto-sell on a daily basis when things go down and that creating a feedback loop that wiped a bunch of people out.
It's yet another example of that you shouldn't play with leverage, options, or any of the more complex financial instruments unless you understand the risk REALLY WELL. It shifts the curve such that the probability of a bad outcome is much higher.
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Options Puts and Calls are purchase in cash. There is no margin allows on Options. The crash in Korea could very well be a margin of 70%, ie., they only need to put out 30% cash. So in the mth. of July, when SOXX tanks from 650 to 464, these investor got their margin call. And their loss can easily be higher than the actual cash they invested in. For e.g., if they invest $10K fully on a 70% margin, when that SOXX tanks about 200 pt., the investor will have a serious margin call. as they only pay 30%, so if 20% is $10K, they are out 70%, and the 1/3 SOXX tank will make them lost far more than 30%.
This is the reason w/ currency trade, in which the margin is 99%, so you only need to put out 1% cash, once a currency devalue or collapse , an average investor can't handle that kind of margin call
This is the reason w/ currency trade, in which the margin is 99%, so you only need to put out 1% cash, once a currency devalue or collapse , an average investor can't handle that kind of margin call
Go watch Boyle's video if you want more details but it was a special kind of account that basically did automatic leverage and settled and re-up'd on a daily basis. When things were going up it delivered as promised the double returns, but of course the downside is way more than 2x if things implode.
It wasn't options, I'm just using that as an example of another thing that has substantial risks people don't understand. Yes, the maximum risk is bounded by the purchase price, but the risk is how likely is it to pay out vs not, in which case you get zero returns. The "zero returns" is way higher than people tend to understand.
It wasn't options, I'm just using that as an example of another thing that has substantial risks people don't understand. Yes, the maximum risk is bounded by the purchase price, but the risk is how likely is it to pay out vs not, in which case you get zero returns. The "zero returns" is way higher than people tend to understand.
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I wonder if there is a South Korea index ETF, or a South Korea Semiconductor ETF put / call
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Not sure how you figure Casual Finance uses AI, but the sponsor WhisperFlow claims to use AI... for speech to text.
At what point did the video say that datacenters are profitable? The point of the video is that AI companies like Meta create companies like Hyperion, to hide their debt so it doesn't effect their stock value. It's as if Meta expects AI to crash and don't want it effecting their stock value. Also, does nobody remember Hyperion from Borderlands 2? It's one of the many evil companies from that game, which Meta decided to name their Data Center.
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This is why I have A.I. trust issues.
A friend e-mailed me this image from their FB feed yesterday.
A friend e-mailed me this image from their FB feed yesterday.
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That kid is VERY bad at pinball.
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Or a very good cheater if he disabled the TILT sensor.
You can't convince me AI isn't going to enable a whole generation of cheaters.
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It looks like he’s moving the table. “Just a liiiiitle more to the right!”
It also looks like the other three stumbled upon their dad’s porn stash.
It also looks like the other three stumbled upon their dad’s porn stash.
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That floor is very uneven -- look how crouched the two in the back are, and they're still almost over his shoulder.
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"Disabled the TILT sensor" ... or maybe he is moving the A.I. machine blocking the soda pop cooler.
Speaking of cheaters. Weren't aim bots of the 90s in FPS game like Quake2 and Unreal Tournament an early form of A. I.? Those were only good with instant hit weapons. I remember being voted into a couple Q2 clans because I was not just another rail whore. Specialized in weapons that required timing. Like grenades and rockets.
Speaking of cheaters. Weren't aim bots of the 90s in FPS game like Quake2 and Unreal Tournament an early form of A. I.? Those were only good with instant hit weapons. I remember being voted into a couple Q2 clans because I was not just another rail whore. Specialized in weapons that required timing. Like grenades and rockets.
When he said that new project have positive margin, I assume you did not actually watch the video (it is long), going from 40% operating margin down to 10% for the latest... is still all profitable and in very direct way, not in protection against competition-long term play-strategy type... those are all bonus over directly profitable infracstructure you are not even paying interest on building.
that would only work if it was not 100% public, 100% known of the people that value the company, it is not something the maker of this video did found, it simply read their SEC stuff, everyone count it as debt like in their valuation of META.
Do you really think people at Goldman Sachs will watch the video, learn anything and have to re-evaluate their buying-selling point of Meta ? (and if that yet to happen it is because it has yet to be seen by big manager ?)
It does create some actual protection (i.e. the company can go bankrupt), clean entity for the private capital to invest in, it is not purely an hiding their debt move (except if by this we meant creating some protection of it), meta does not own much of that hyperion company so it is not that crazy that they do not own all of the debt, there is actual risk sharing going on.
The they cannot buy it using pure cashflow anymore they need investor and have investor is true, having investor instead of taking a pure loan do share the risk in some way and that do reflect in the way peopel account for it, they do count it as debt-like because of the amount of obligations, but no interest for a extremelly long term and a possiblity of independant bankruptcy in a vehicle is not the usual debt either. And when you look per year obligation, it is not that big versus the company revenues and/or the asset behind it.
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Very annecdotale but just tried nano bana, openAI and grok with a simple:
make a vantage style picture (in colors) 50/60s, group of kids playing a game of pinball, clean dress and cut in a candy shop of that era
Nano banana did not had the issues, grok and OpenAI had it, when asked do you know what wrong with the image ?
Grok:
You’re right — looking closer, the boy in the red-and-white striped shirt does not have proper access to the flipper controls.
His hands are resting on the glass/playfield area rather than on the side buttons, and he’s standing more toward the middle of the machine instead of at the front playing position. None of the kids are actually operating the flippers from the correct spot; they’re all just gathered around watching and leaning on it.
That’s the issue you were pointing out. Want me to regenerate the image so one of the kids is clearly playing (hands on the flipper buttons, standing at the front of the machine)?
Or openAI when asked what wrong with the picture:
There’s also a physical/compositional problem: the boy supposedly playing is positioned awkwardly along the side of the machine. A player should be centered at the front/lower end of the cabinet, facing the backglass, with each hand naturally reaching a flipper button on either side. So the image superficially looks right, but the central object gives the game away.
The corrected one was quite good.
I.e. would you spend more money and compute, that the type of error the AI of today can catch and clear itself, using the AI validator loop is costly right now, but they get those errors and can tell the regenator what to do. (if you can manually ask it, what wrong ? knowing what wrong correct the image.... your AI loop can do the same)
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I forget which AI I used for this, but I asked it to show me an image of what the Sega Neptune looks on it's side and this is what it created. It was so funny I had to keep it. It's for the Neptune project I'm working on but here's another photo of what it should look like. AI took the Sega Genesis Model 2 and wrote SEGA NEPTUNE on it and put all the ports on it's side. If anyone needs proof that AI doesn't actually think then here's your proof.
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We had one of those! The Genesis, not the fake Neptune. XD
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I think I have said this before, but I feel fairly certain there is going to be an AI crash, and I think it is going to be painful, but also a bit weird.
So much money has been invested in AI at this point that it is already beyond the point where all reasonable future discounted cash flows result in a non-positive NPV (at least per several investment bakers who are way more knowledgeable on this topic than I am)
Just like with the financial crisis, where suddenly, overnight, no hedge funds or banks were willing to buy the mortgage companies low quality collateralized debt obligations, this will also come suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, and when it does it will be a bloodbath.
It won't kill AI. AI - for better or for worse - is now with us forever. BUT - just like when the Dot Com Bubble burst - it will help select the winners and the losers. It will filter out all of the organizations that exist based on hype only and don't have real or realistically usable products, and companies that are over-leveraged, or are unable to generate enough revenue to stay afloat, but just like how the Dot Com crash didn't kill the nascent Internet, when this bubble bursts it won't kill AI. It will just get rid of the junk, and make way for the AI market to become the market the Internet eventually became, a market not just driven by investment and burn rate, but one that could actually be financially sustainable.
The weird part will be how it affects people. No doubt about it, investors are going to be left holding the bag, the stock market will crash, and many retirement plans are going to be seriously hurt, but how workers are going to be affected is going to be a bit confusing.
Sure, workers directly in AI companies may lose their jobs, but at the same time, the market will realize that they have been over-sold on the current capabilities of AI, and many of those layoffs that have happened due to excitement at the prospect of laying off workers because AI can do their jobs, will be reversed, and there will likely be hiring, so many of those laid off will likely find work elsewhere.
So how this winds up ending is not entirely clear to me. I suppose it could mean that there is a precipitous crash, the market indices fall badly, investors lose a ton of money, but a relatively rapid rebound as hiring offsets AI specific job losses. At least so I hope.
Time will tell.
So much money has been invested in AI at this point that it is already beyond the point where all reasonable future discounted cash flows result in a non-positive NPV (at least per several investment bakers who are way more knowledgeable on this topic than I am)
Just like with the financial crisis, where suddenly, overnight, no hedge funds or banks were willing to buy the mortgage companies low quality collateralized debt obligations, this will also come suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, and when it does it will be a bloodbath.
It won't kill AI. AI - for better or for worse - is now with us forever. BUT - just like when the Dot Com Bubble burst - it will help select the winners and the losers. It will filter out all of the organizations that exist based on hype only and don't have real or realistically usable products, and companies that are over-leveraged, or are unable to generate enough revenue to stay afloat, but just like how the Dot Com crash didn't kill the nascent Internet, when this bubble bursts it won't kill AI. It will just get rid of the junk, and make way for the AI market to become the market the Internet eventually became, a market not just driven by investment and burn rate, but one that could actually be financially sustainable.
The weird part will be how it affects people. No doubt about it, investors are going to be left holding the bag, the stock market will crash, and many retirement plans are going to be seriously hurt, but how workers are going to be affected is going to be a bit confusing.
Sure, workers directly in AI companies may lose their jobs, but at the same time, the market will realize that they have been over-sold on the current capabilities of AI, and many of those layoffs that have happened due to excitement at the prospect of laying off workers because AI can do their jobs, will be reversed, and there will likely be hiring, so many of those laid off will likely find work elsewhere.
So how this winds up ending is not entirely clear to me. I suppose it could mean that there is a precipitous crash, the market indices fall badly, investors lose a ton of money, but a relatively rapid rebound as hiring offsets AI specific job losses. At least so I hope.
Time will tell.
Pension funds are holding a lot of the bag now so if the rug is going to be pulled it'll be probably within the next 12 months. Here's a list chatgpt put together of available data on pension fund exposure. (not financial advice)
Yes. I expanded it into a 50-fund global tracker. The most useful way to do this is to distinguish pension funds that are actually financing/owning AI infrastructure from those whose exposure is mainly Nvidia, Microsoft and other listed AI companies.
One important methodological point: there is no defensible way to calculate a single exact “AI exposure” for every pension fund. Private valuations are often undisclosed, infrastructure funds contain non-AI assets, and 13F filings cover only U.S.-listed securities. So below, “identifiable AI exposure” means the minimum I can substantiate from disclosed positions/commitments, rather than pretending an uncertain estimate is exact.
Exposure key
Very High = multi-billion-dollar direct AI/DC portfolio or exceptionally large AI-equity portfolio.
High = substantial direct digital infrastructure and/or roughly $1bn+ identifiable AI equities.
Medium = material listed AI positions, smaller direct infrastructure allocations, or both.
ND = not separately disclosed.
1. Pension funds with direct AI/data-centre exposure
The numbers above reveal how large the Australian exposure has become. Cbus says approximately A$4.5 billion of its property, infrastructure and private-equity assets are linked to AI, including CyrusOne. Aware Super now says its digital-infrastructure portfolio exceeds A$6 billion, and in January 2026 it committed another US$300 million to the vehicle owning Vantage Data Centers APAC.
# Pension fund Scale* Direct AI / data-centre amount identifiable Nvidia Microsoft Major AI/DC assets Overall AI exposure 1 CPP Investments ~C$781B+ ≥US$4.1B + €1.1B, before AirTrunk and several private AI positions Yes Yes AirTrunk, atNorth, Equinix xScale, Goodman DCs, xAI financing, Anthropic, OpenAI/Cohere/AI VC Very High 2 AustralianSuper >A$430B ~A$4.7B announced Yes Yes DataBank, Vantage EMEA, Cirion Very High 3 Cbus Super ~A$100B+ ~A$4.5B in AI-linked private assets Yes Yes CyrusOne, Switch, Green, broadband, power infrastructure Very High 4 Aware Super ~A$210B >A$6B digital infrastructure; US$300M new Vantage APAC deal Yes Yes Switch, Vantage APAC, euNetworks, Vocus, 2degrees Very High 5 Ontario Teachers' (OTPP) C$279.4B ND Yes Yes Compass Datacenters, Princeton Digital Group, Anthropic Very High 6 La Caisse / CDPQ C$551.6B ≥A$1B NEXTDCplus other financing Yes Yes NEXTDC, Vantage Data Centers Very High 7 Rest Super >A$90B A$1B commitmentto Quinbrook Yes Yes Rowan Digital Infrastructure, Brisbane Supernode, green hyperscale DCs High 8 BCI ~C$265B net ND ND ND EdgeConneX, GlobalConnect; AI venture/growth investments High 9 ABP / APG ~€500B+ Purchase price ND Yes Yes NorthC Datacenters, euNetworks, OneAsia High 10 PFZW / PGGM ~€250B Purchase price ND Yes Yes 49% Penta Infra, Eurofiber data centres High 11 CalPERS US$177.4B Q2 13F alone ≥US$150M specific GI data-infrastructure commitment, plus TechCore US$9.22B Q2 2026 US$5.89B GI Partners TechCore/Data Infrastructure Very High 12 CalSTRS US$94.5B Q1 13F US$150M GI Data Infrastructure Fund commitment ~US$6.4B Q1 Large GI Partners DataCore/Data Infrastructure Very High 13 New York State Common Retirement Fund ~US$79B listed U.S. portfolio US$300M Principal Data Center fund Multi-billion Multi-billion Principal Data Center Growth & Income Fund Very High 14 HESTA ~A$105B ND Yes Yes Radius Global Infrastructure — land underlying DCs/exchanges High 15 UniSuper ~A$150B ND Yes Yes NEXTDC, Goodman, Equinix, Digital Realty High 16 AIMCo ~C$170B+ Data-centre REITs ~3% of reported infrastructure sector allocation ND ND Data-centre REITs; former AirTrunk stake Medium–High 17 HOOPP C$132B ND ND ND Tenstorrent AI semiconductor investment Medium–High 18 NYCERS Part of NYC pooled pension assets ND Yes indirectly/pooled Yes Infrastructure portfolio explicitly benefiting from AI DC buildout High 19 NYC Teachers' Retirement System Pooled NYC assets ND Yes Yes AI/data-centre infrastructure High 20 NYC Board of Education Retirement System Pooled NYC assets ND Yes Yes AI/data-centre infrastructure High 21 NYC Police Pension Fund Pooled NYC assets ND Yes Yes AI/data-centre infrastructure High 22 NYC Fire Pension Fund Pooled NYC assets ND Yes Yes AI/data-centre infrastructure High 23 Aware's Switch/Vantage holdings are included above; no double count — — — — — —
Rest has a A$1 billion Quinbrook commitment, giving it exposure to Rowan's U.S. hyperscale developments and Brisbane's Supernode; Rest says AI and data-centre demand are part of the investment thesis. HESTA similarly describes its Radius investment explicitly as “backing AI infrastructure.”
CPP is probably the most diversified direct pension investor in the entire AI stack. It is investing in hyperscale data centres through AirTrunk, Equinix, Goodman and atNorth while simultaneously investing in AI companies. Its atNorth deal alone requires about US$1.6 billion from CPP, its Equinix xScale allocation is up to US$2.4 billion, and the Goodman European partnership calls for €1.1 billion from CPP initially.
Ontario Teachers' ended 2025 with C$279.4 billion and has exposure to Compass Datacenters, Princeton Digital Group and Anthropic. La Caisse has grown further, reaching about C$551.6 billion at 30 June 2026.
2. Major pension funds with substantial listed AI exposure
These funds may or may not directly own data centres, but their disclosed holdings give them significant economic exposure to the AI boom.
A few of these listed exposures are enormous enough to rival direct data-centre investments. AP7, for example, held SEK73.23 billion of Nvidia and SEK40.97 billion of Microsoft at 30 June 2026. Add TSMC (SEK39.89B), Amazon (SEK35.84B), Alphabet (SEK33.26B), Broadcom (SEK26.49B), AMD (SEK14.65B) and ASML (SEK11.94B), and AP7's identifiable AI-stack holdings are well above SEK275 billion.
# Pension fund Country Latest public-equity scale / AUM indicator Nvidia Microsoft Direct DC disclosed? Estimated AI exposure 23 National Pension Service (NPS) US$155.1B Q2 U.S. 13F ~US$10B+ ~US$5–6B Not major disclosed direct holding Very High 24 AP7 Equity Fund ~SEK1tn+ class SEK73.23B SEK40.97B No Very High 25 Employees Provident Fund (EPF) US$17.42B U.S. 13Falone US$1.370B US$1.394B Not identified Very High 26 AP4 SEK578.1B at 2025 year-end before reform transfers SEK7.24B SEK5.65B No major direct DC identified High 27 Ilmarinen €70.4B June 2026 ~US$635M ~US$360M ND High 28 Varma ~€65B+ Large US$425.6M ND High 29 GPIF ~¥280tn+ class Yes, very large Yes, very large ND Very High 30 AP2 ~SEK475B Yes Yes ND High 31 AP3 ~SEK577B Yes Yes ND High 32 ATP ~DKK700B+ class Yes Yes ND High 33 USS ~£70–80B class Exposure reported through mandates Microsoft verified ND Medium–High 34 Hostplus ~A$100B+ Yes Yes No large direct DC disclosed High 35 CareSuper ~A$50B+ Yes Yes ND Medium–High 36 Florida Retirement System / SBA US$53.4B Q1 13F Very large Very large ND Very High 37 Teacher Retirement System of Texas ~US$37B disclosed U.S. equities Very large Large ND High 38 State of Wisconsin Investment Board ~US$49.6B U.S. 13F Very large Very large ND High 39 Michigan Retirement System US$22.59B Q2 13F Top holding Top-four ND High 40 Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System / Treasury US$33.7B Q2 13F US$1.679B US$960M ND Very High 41 Teachers' Retirement System of Kentucky ~US$13B 13F ~US$640M Q1 ~US$411M Q1 ND High 42 Retirement Systems of Alabama US$33.21B Q2 13F ~US$1.8B ~US$959M ND Very High 43 Ohio PERS US$34.02B Q2 13F Top holding Top-four ND Very High 44 STRS Ohio Multi-billion U.S. equity book Very large ~US$944M ND High 45 Maryland State Retirement & Pension System US$5.8B Q2 13F US$251M US$149M ND Medium–High 46 Louisiana State Employees Retirement System US$6.74B Q2 13F US$360M Large ND Medium–High 47 Arizona State Retirement System ≥US$17.1B U.S. equities Top holding Top-four ND High 48 Colorado PERA US$28.95B Q2 13F Top holding Top-four ND Very High 49 Utah Retirement Systems US$10.51B Q2 13F US$708.7M US$420.8M ND High 50 New York State Teachers' Retirement System Large U.S. equity portfolio US$3.76B Q2 Very large ND Very High
AP4 held SEK7.24B Nvidia + SEK5.65B Microsoft + SEK5.56B Alphabet at the end of 2025. Ilmarinen had grown to €70.4 billion of investment assets by June 2026; its U.S.-listed holdings included roughly US$635M Nvidia and US$360M Microsoft.
Malaysia's EPF is another surprisingly large AI investor. At 30 June 2026 its disclosed U.S. portfolio alone contained approximately US$1.394B Microsoft, US$1.370B Nvidia, US$1.013B Micron, US$963M Alphabet and US$814M Broadcom. That's more than US$5.5 billion in just those five AI-related companies, before Amazon, Meta and other positions.
South Korea's NPS is even larger: its Q2 2026 U.S. portfolio was US$155.1 billion, with Nvidia its largest holding and Microsoft also among its biggest positions.
In the U.S., CalPERS' Q2 2026 filing alone shows approximately US$9.22B Nvidia + US$5.89B Microsoft + US$4.72B Broadcom + US$4.46B Amazon. So its identifiable listed AI exposure is already comfortably above US$20 billion, before Alphabet, Meta, AMD, TSMC, its S&P 500 ETFs or private data-centre investments are counted.
Tennessee's Q2 filing is particularly clear: US$1.679B Nvidia, US$960M Microsoft, US$803M Amazon and US$617M Broadcom, among other AI holdings. Utah held approximately US$709M Nvidia and US$421M Microsoft at 30 June. Maryland held roughly US$251M Nvidia and US$149M Microsoft, while Louisiana reported about US$360M Nvidia.
The ranking changes depending on what you mean by “invested in AI”
If I rank the funds by direct financing of AI infrastructure rather than passive ownership of Nvidia, my current rough top tier is:
If instead we rank by total identifiable AI-related financial exposure, several giant indexed/public-equity investors shoot upwards. CalPERS, NPS, GPIF and AP7 have extremely large exposures simply because Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Broadcom, TSMC and other AI beneficiaries are such large components of global markets.
- CPP Investments
- AustralianSuper
- Cbus
- Aware Super
- Ontario Teachers'
- La Caisse/CDPQ
- Rest
- CalPERS
- ABP/APG
- PFZW/PGGM
The numbers that stand out most
The most consequential finding is that pension money is now financing all four layers of the AI buildout: AI companies themselves; semiconductors such as Nvidia/AMD/TSMC; hyperscale data centres; and the electricity/fibre infrastructure needed to run those data centres. The exposure is therefore considerably larger than simply adding up pension funds' Nvidia shares.
Fund Particularly striking figure AP7 >SEK275B identifiable across major AI-stack equities CalPERS >US$20B identifiable from just a handful of AI stocks, before ETFs/private assets NPS US$155.1B U.S. equity portfolio, Nvidia #1 CPP Multiple billions of dollars of direct AI/DC capital plus private AI-company holdings AustralianSuper Roughly A$4.7B in DataBank + Vantage commitments Cbus ~A$4.5B of assets it explicitly describes as AI-linked Aware Super >A$6B digital infrastructure portfolio EPF Malaysia >US$5.5B in just MSFT/NVDA/Micron/Alphabet/Broadcom AP4 SEK12.9B in Nvidia + Microsoft alone Rest A$1B Quinbrook commitment supporting hyperscale/green DCs
*For U.S. funds, figures labelled 13F are the market value of reported U.S.-listed securities, not the pension plan's total assets. Private assets, foreign ordinary shares, many funds and other investments are excluded.
Because these positions change quarterly, I can also keep a tracker of pension-fund purchases/sales of Nvidia, Microsoft and new AI data-centre deals and flag major changes.
It's not just pension funds or your 401k. Your life insurance policy also has a fair amount invested in the AI companies.
This is one of the complaints that people have, is that when things go boom, it's going to be everyone but the AI billionaires who end up footing the bill.
To take control of everything, they need a truly massive crisis, and I think they’re steering the global economy toward that point. So (the rush for) artificial intelligence is the tool that will make this happen, and the tool that will then be used to manage everything with precision.
UBI is ready to “help everyone”—“don’t worry.”
How long will it take... Time will tell.