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AI supply × demand, on one honest clock.

A slow fundamental read of where the AI build-out sits: demand intensity from usage, adoption, capex, and announced projects; supply tightness from component-cycle health, chokepoints, and capacity relief. Every print keeps its inputs, knowledge dates, coverage, and methodology hash.

no forward print · validation gate fired

The retrospective proxy pack cannot authorize publication.

This pack is explicitly marked preliminary_proxy. Its values were assembled after the episodes and cannot masquerade as point-in-time evidence. Numerically, committed_pipeline correlates 96.3%with the heat index—above the pre-declared 95% redundancy limit. The weekly recorder keeps collecting inputs, but a forward print requires a separately reviewed point-in-time evidence manifest and every numerical gate.

Three retrospective proxy episodes

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demandsupply
Historical thermometer demand and supply axesIllustrative retrospective demand and supply proxy scores from zero to one hundred over fifteen quarterly observations spanning MLCC, ABF, and HBM episodes. These are not point-in-time prints.02550751002017-12-31: demand 59.1, supply 37.8, SUPPLY_AHEAD2018-03-31: demand 66.5, supply 78.6, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2018-06-30: demand 67.3, supply 95.8, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2018-09-30: demand 40.1, supply 90.0, SUPPLY_CONSTRAINED2018-12-31: demand 29.1, supply 26.4, SUPPLY_GLUT2020-09-30: demand 82.9, supply 51.1, DEMAND_LED_EXPANSION2020-12-31: demand 90.9, supply 81.7, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2021-03-31: demand 96.4, supply 96.7, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2021-06-30: demand 84.3, supply 95.0, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2021-09-30: demand 65.4, supply 78.6, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2022-12-31: demand 40.6, supply 20.6, SUPPLY_AHEAD2023-03-31: demand 67.8, supply 51.4, DEMAND_LED_EXPANSION2023-06-30: demand 94.0, supply 92.9, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2023-09-30: demand 92.3, supply 96.7, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS2023-12-31: demand 94.2, supply 96.7, DEMAND_LED_TIGHTNESS

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Pick a plotted date. Every row exposes the raw observation, frozen normalization anchors, exact transform, effective weight, and contribution to the axis. Axis = Σ(score × frozen weight × source coverage) ÷ included coverage.

94.2
96.7
95.4
97.5

Demand intensity

coverage 100.0%
InputRaw observationFrozen transformScoreEffective weightContribution
Inference usage / spend growth
usage_growth

OpenRouter token-spend tracer; historical replays use the closest dated end-demand usage proxy.

0.88
trailing-vs-prior fractional growth
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold -0.2 → 0 · neutral 0.0 → 50 · hot 1.0 → 100
50 + 50 × (0.88 − 0.0) ÷ (1.0 − 0.0) = 94.0
94.020%18.8
Open-model adoption breadth
adoption_breadth

Median download growth across a frozen Hugging Face model panel; replay uses a dated adoption-breadth proxy.

0.49
median model-download growth
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold -0.2 → 0 · neutral 0.0 → 50 · hot 0.5 → 100
50 + 50 × (0.49 − 0.0) ÷ (0.5 − 0.0) = 99.0
99.020%19.8
Provider unit-cost deflation
unit_cost_deflation

Falling published price per token is the Jevons elasticity input; cheaper is hotter only while usage also grows.

-0.49
median blended price change
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold 0.1 → 0 · neutral 0.0 → 50 · hot -0.5 → 100
50 + 50 × (0.0 − -0.49) ÷ (0.0 − -0.5) = 99.0
99.020%19.8
Hyperscaler capital commitment
capital_commitment

Point-in-time aggregate MSFT/GOOGL/AMZN/META capex growth from SEC filings.

0.39
TTM capex YoY growth
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold -0.1 → 0 · neutral 0.1 → 50 · hot 0.6 → 100
50 + 50 × (0.39 − 0.1) ÷ (0.6 − 0.1) = 79.0
79.020%15.8
Committed data-center pipeline
committed_pipeline

Source-cited dc_projects ledger phased into a near-term annual power-arrival schedule.

15.2
average announced GW arriving per year over the next three years
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold 0.0 → 0 · neutral 7.5 → 50 · hot 15.0 → 100
15.2 ≥ hot 15.0 → 100.0 (clipped)
100.020%20
(94 × 0.2 × 1 + 99 × 0.2 × 1 + 99 × 0.2 × 1 + 79 × 0.2 × 1 + 100 × 0.2 × 1) ÷ 1 = 94.20

Supply tightness

coverage 100.0%
InputRaw observationFrozen transformScoreEffective weightContribution
Fused component-cycle gate
supply_cycle_gate

The live fused memory gate; episode replay uses the equivalent point-in-time component-cycle state.

TIGHT
categorical gate state
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
BREAKING → 10.0 · EARLY-CRACK → 55.0 · INTACT → 85.0 · OVERSUPPLY → 10.0 · BALANCED → 50.0 · TIGHT → 90.0
TIGHT maps directly to 90.0
90.033.333333%30
Chokepoint tension
chokepoint_tension

Highest current supply-chain stranglehold/tightness score, with its source and relief clock.

0.92
0-1 measured/curated tension
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold 0.2 → 0 · neutral 0.5 → 50 · hot 0.85 → 100
0.92 ≥ hot 0.85 → 100.0 (clipped)
100.033.333333%33.333333
Capacity relief-window tension
relief_window_tension

Power-vertical relief tension live; equivalent announced-capacity relief evidence in historical episodes.

0.94
share of committed demand landing inside the relief window
observed
2023-12-31
known
2026-07-10T00:00:00
evidence
retrospective_proxy
docs/adr/0081-ai-supercycle-binding-constraint.md
cold 0.2 → 0 · neutral 0.5 → 50 · hot 0.9 → 100
0.94 ≥ hot 0.9 → 100.0 (clipped)
100.033.333333%33.333333
(90 × 0.3333333333333333 × 1 + 100 × 0.3333333333333333 × 1 + 100 × 0.3333333333333333 × 1) ÷ 1 = 96.67
(94.2 + 96.7) ÷ 2 = 95.4
100 − |94.2 − 96.7| = 97.5
objectreplays/preliminary-proxy-v1/prints/2023-12-31.jsonsha256aca458ef3d602d61468a6803ea79d6222fed6514679f12f4eeba6c07eaa53fb0

Episode replay prints

Equal weights. Evidence families carry equal weight within each axis. Missing or stale inputs are excluded and weights re-normalize; coverage never disappears.

Heat plus disagreement. The diffusion index is the mean of the two axes. The visible band is their range; agreement is 100 minus that width.

No retrospective edits. One JSON and Markdown artifact per date. A changed rerun for an existing date fails closed.

replay.json/v1/thermometer/latestMCP: thermometer.latest
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