NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout for stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers is overwhelming Wall Street on Thursday and more than erasing all its gains from the day before, which was its best in three months.

The S&P 500 fell 3.5% after opening with a loss that accelerated through the morning. It’s on track for its worst drop since President Donald Trump shook markets worldwide in April 2025 after announcing his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

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[–] 111 points 4 days ago (2 children)
  • [–] 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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    Doesn't really seem like a big drop.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 days ago

    As soon as you see the billionaires cashing out of the casino ... it's already too late

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  • [–] 37 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    And of course it will all be Biden's fault according to the Whitehouse.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 days ago (15 children)

    Time to buy, but buy companies that aren't all-in on AI.

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  • [–] 62 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Bro we are just getting started on this bear market, tread very cautiously attempting to buy the dip at this juncture.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Same for selling, especially if you aren’t retiring like, tomorrow. Selling locks in losses.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Yes, now is the time to catch the knife

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    Honestly, the best strategy is to buy harder the more it falls. Really a bite the pillow and do it situation. Everyone is still going to keep putting money in their 401k which will have sap500 mixed in and will keep that money valve open and then the next shiny new tulip bulb will show up and kazooom, it's all a dumb monkey cycle. Smart money says never bet against Uncle Sam, I won't, would you?

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago

    i saw a guy blowing his nose on a 5090 and throw it in the garbage at the bus stop

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    How are they gonnaslow down when they have hardware orders for years to come?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I know broad market is down, but it makes me happy my portfolio was basically unaffected.

    I was asked by my bank to invest in a data centre “infrastructure fund” and said no.

    Why would I invest in hardware at all time high prices?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago*

    Selling the semiconductor ETF I had for the last 6 years just before the election has shown to be a very good idea.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    3% is not a tumble, it's basically nothing.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago*

    stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers

    Slowing down data center construction might be bad for the companies making hardware for them, but it's probably good for the AI companies that are throwing money into data centers with no real plan for making their money back.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    Dip the buy!

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Where’s all the iT’s NoT aBuBbLe people now??

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  • [–] 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I thought there was pretty much consensus here that AI is a bubble.
    IT as whole IDK, but most definitely AI.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Overall that’s definitely the sentiment here, but there were some roaming contrarians/AI huffers who were insistent it’s not a bubble because ‘inference is getting cheaper’/‘companies losing money at first is normal’/everything except the obvious.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Inference is cheaper is true, and they charge more, but they are still deep in the red, and there is no way they can achieve a reasonable return on their investments.
    They may not go bankrupt, but they won't make a whole lot of money either.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago

    I'm not anti-AI in any shape or form but even I acknowledge that those companies are overvalued. I don't remember ever seeing anyone claiming otherwise. Least of all here. I'm sure you can find people like that but I don't hang where those people do.

    However I do disagree about the implication that the bubble has somehow now shown to have been actual. It's not. No actual crash has happened. Also, many people seem to be under the impression that the bubble bursting would somehow make AI go away. That I disagree with as well.

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  • Good! Fuck AI!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    Sorry, just put excess savings in an all world yesterday so it had to happen. Rules are rules.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    Really? 3%? Why is this news.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Its news, but its not 2008-financial-crisis or Black Monday (22.6% drop in a single day) scale news.

    Whats reading even more strange to me is that the 3% drop indicates a sell-off of stocks. The idea is that the money disappearing from the stock market goes somewhere, but all of the normal places it goes are also dropping.

    • Gold up only 1% since two days ago
    • Short term (4 week) US Treasuries are down by about 10 basis points since last week.
    • Real Estate sales are down
    • Private Equity withdraws are still hitting their max ceilings

    Is this a selloff to pay off debt perhaps?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago*

    According to the article it's going into long term treasuries

    In the bond market, Treasury yields continued to tumble. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.84% from 4.90% late Wednesday. It had been at 4.95% on election night and above 5.30% last month. That could be a signal that investors are herding into U.S. Treasury bonds in search of something that’s safer to own as stock prices tumble.

    For those who don't know how bonds work, a bonds yield going down means its price has gone up. Say a bond pays $2 a year. If that bond is priced at $100 then it's yield is 2% , if that bonds price goes up to $200 then it's yield is now only 1%.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    How familiar are you with the stock market? Because that’s 3x what it moves in a normal day and represents billions in losses.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    It's "suicide hotlines being posted on WSB" bad, that's my usual indicator for newsworthy stock crashes.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    You make most of your money during a bear market, it just takes time to realize it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    There goes my tax money :(

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    The trump bots are overactive in the comments

    Edit: just so we're clear I'm talking about apnews, not here

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  • 20 comments in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 60 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    This is GOOD news. We're letting air out of the bubble and, hopefully, healthily redistributing it across the economy into BUSINESSES THAT DO SOMETHING WITH VALUE.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    Hopefully this bubble doesn’t kill those businesses.

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    BUSINESSES THAT DO SOMETHING WITH VALUE

    Those businesses specifically.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Would someone please think of specifically those businesses that do something of value

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Well, they have my thoughts and prayers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I guess any shred of care I have for a business stops at the IPO.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Not all businesses are evil companies trying to suck the life out of workers at the benefit of their personal yacht fund.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    No not all. But after IPO you're a majority share from it at any point in time. That's a decision a company makes.

    If you want my concern shift to an employee owned worker co-op model with a sustainable market strategy. Not always a prefect solution but at least growth doesn't inevitably become your sole driver.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Productive business will be cannibalized by government and their parasitic business allies soon, unless the democrats grow a spine, which isn't in the cards unless we change the game here, (I hate that phrase as used by business but it fits here.)

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  • [–] 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Keep rolling rolling rolling rolling (downhill)

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago

    Good. More, more!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago

    Long overdue, the layoffs began a while ago. They'll blame the Democrats and the midterm, but this has been something coming for the past year.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Took some of my stock with it even though I don’t own AI stock

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Better yet, there is a lot of purchased hardware and resource that is sitting idle, counting down the debt bomb they all borrowed on. And it will be due soon. Crash is coming, it's only a matter of time

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