Systemic SRISK (Value-at-Risk)
$284B
Expected systemic capital shortfall
Insolvent / Distressed Nodes
4 / 10
Tier-1 capital depleted below buffer
Circular Counterparty Loss
$118B
Unbacked cloud-for-equity write-offs
Grid / PPA Stranded Debt
$62B
Take-or-pay capacity overhang
Hyperscaler Frontier Lab Hardware/Fab Grid Utility Debt SPV Downstream
Frontier Lab Alpha (Foundational Models)
Role: Foundation Model Architect · High Cash Burn / Cloud Credit Dependent
Capital:$45B
Health:38% (Distressed)
Direct Exposure:$85B
Eisenberg-Noe Clearing Log Round 2 / Settled
[Round 1] Shock injected at Frontier Lab Alpha: 70% burn acceleration creates $38B liquidity shortfall.
[Round 1] Titan Cloud writes down $24.5B in prepaid cloud-equity conversion rights.
[Round 2] Circular AI Venture Fund SPV margin call fails: $32B compute collateral liquidation.
[Round 2] Axiom Silicon absorbs buffer impairment; orders backlogged but fab solvency intact.
Systemically Important AI Providers (SIAP) 10 Tracked Entities
Entity Tier-1 Buffer Loss Absorp. Status
Baseline contagion model initialized. Click 'Inject Contagion Shock' to simulate clearing rounds.

The 2008 Analogy: Why AI Infrastructure Mirrors SIFI Contagion

In her New York Times essay, financial journalist Bethany McLean (author of The Smartest Guys in the Room) warned that the unchecked concentration of foundational AI labs, cloud hyperscalers, and utility grids creates the exact structural vulnerability of the 2008 banking crisis: Too Big to Fail.

Instead of subprime mortgage CDOs, today’s systemic risk takes the form of circular cloud financing—where hyperscalers inject billions into frontier labs on the contractual condition that funds are recycled immediately as compute spend, inflating valuations while concentrating tail risk.

How This Stress Model Works (Eisenberg-Noe Clearing Vector)

  • Interbank-style Bilateral Obligations: Each node represents a systemic player (Hyperscaler, Lab, Foundry, Utility, SaaS distributor) connected by debt, compute agreements, and PPA energy contracts.
  • Clearing Algorithm: When a shock occurs, losses propagate along directed edges until clearing balances settle or buffer thresholds collapse.
  • Circular Debt Spillover: When a frontier lab burns cash without enterprise software payback, cloud hyperscalers write down equity while carrying fixed long-term power grid take-or-pay commitments.
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