“Aschenbrenner assumed that because a technology is transformative, the capital that builds it will earn its cost. There is no relationship between those two things. In fact, it’s more likely not to be true. Leo’s own essay contains the tell: "Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans." He wrote that as a bull case. But it isn’t. That is a recipe for a financial disaster.”