The AI revolution is supposed to make physical assets obsolete. I think it's doing the opposite. 

I've watched Wall Street miss the real trade more times than I can count. And in my experience, some of the most significant opportunities have appeared when most people were still looking the other way. 

I think we're at one of those moments right now. 

For three decades, the winning formula was simple: own software, avoid hard assets. 

It worked brilliantly — until January 2026, when Amazon bypassed the open commodities market entirely and signed a direct, multi-decade copper deal with mining giant Rio Tinto. One of the largest capital allocators on earth stopped buying software. Amazon was buying atoms. 

Amazon wasn't alone. Across all four major hyperscalers, the numbers tell the same story. 

 

2022 

2026 


Hyperscaler CapEx

 


~$175B/year 


~$610B/year 


Scarce Resource 


Engineers & code 


Energy, water, land, copper 


Big Tech Free Cash Flow


Record highs


Projected ~74% decline*

*Source: Company filings and analyst estimates as of early 2026. Projections are estimates and not guaranteed.

The physical supply chain cannot scale at software speed. And the companies providing the energy, materials, and infrastructure that AI runs on have, in many cases, not been repriced the way AI-focused stocks have. 

I built an ETF around that idea. 

It's called HALX — the Tuttle Capital Heavy Asset Low Obsolescence ETF, and it launched today. I'll be walking through the full thesis live at my webinar on May 19 — but if you want to see what we’ve built before then, it's right here.

- Matt

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