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Meta stood up a cloud business and CoreWeave dropped 14% in a day.

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Meta Compute will sell excess AI compute and model access against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, backed by up to roughly $145B in 2026 infrastructure spend. CoreWeave shares fell 14% on July 8 as the market read Meta as a credible neocloud threat. For anyone renting GPUs, another hyperscaler entrant is good news for pricing and availability, eventually. Watch whether Meta actually opens it up or keeps the good capacity for itself.

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