If companies that are basing X% of their future earnings on new AI based products don't pay up a bunch of those data centers are not gonna be re-leased. It's gonna be a problem. An seasoned analyst can take educated guesses as to what that X is: investments made in pure chips by Nvidia/AmD vs how much capital investment— not VC — Faang(i.e ones that are just using the chips for building software) are putting into them. The difference between investment devoted to pure DC build out minus what they are spending is a good proxy to understand the overinvestment.