Daily Earnings: Grid Walls, Sovereign Taxes & AI Coders (SMCI, AMD) | May 5

The financial costs and physical limits of the AI transition became aggressively concrete today, revealing maxed-out power grids, new sovereign revenue-sharing demands, and the rapid obsolescence of human software developers. - SMCI and LITE face severe physical deployment walls as hyperscalers entirely exhaust local utility caps.- The U.S. government is demanding a structural fifteen percent revenue tax on AMD custom AI chips.- SHOP proves structural developer displacement as autonomous bots now natively write over half its enterprise codebase.Paper equity markdowns are temporarily masking massive operational leverage, while physical hardware bottlenecks and geopolitical rent-seeking shift from theoretical risks into permanent variable costs.