Go ahead and short Micron, I dare you and you will get burned (Save this).
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-07-03
Milk Road AI argues Micron is a near-certain winner of AI infrastructure spending, citing data center memory demand growing 23x to $1.4 trillion by 2030 and Micron's pre-sold 2026 HBM supply backed by $100 billion in take-or-pay contracts.
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Topics: hbm-memorysemiconductor-marketai-infrastructure-investmentdata-center-demand
Claims
- Data center memory demand is projected to grow from $60 billion in 2024 to $1.4 trillion by 2030, a 23x increase.
- Only Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron produce HBM; China's CXMT is years behind and not a factor in advanced HBM.
- Micron sold its entire 2026 HBM supply before the year started and has signed $100 billion in take-or-pay contracts with $22 billion in upfront customer payments.
- Major hyperscalers — Meta ($145B), Amazon ($100B), Microsoft ($80B), Google ($75B) — have committed parabolic AI capex, all of which eventually touches memory.
- Micron's roughly one-third share of the global memory market implies approximately $470 billion in data-center revenue by 2030 before any consumer device sales.
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Go ahead and short Micron, I dare you and you will get burned.
Micron sold out its entire 2026 HBM supply before the year even started.
That's not a commodity business anymore but rather customers paying in advance because they're scared of running out.