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46%

A second AI infrastructure contract above $500M discloses both a future service date and an option, delayed-draw, earnout, or guarantee allocating schedule risk by December 31, 2026.

Probability history

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Called at 68% on September 5, 2026. Repriced 1 time; now 46%. 116 days to deadline.

How the number was built

Final method: stacked-fixed-weights (resolved n=57 < 80). Each rung is an independent estimate; the final is a stacked combination.

Stated (issue date)68%
Reference class (n=29)50%
Recalibrated56%
Feature model30%
Council47%
Final46%

Drivers

  • Reference class qtype:disclosure runs 0.50 (n=29) vs stated 0.68.
  • Hierarchical calibration moves stated 0.68 to 0.56 (lens capital, kappa_stated=24.0, kappa_lens=200.0).
  • Feature model at 0.30: conjuncts=3, named disclosure=True, horizon=117d.
  • Council of 5 at 0.47.

Cautions

  • all 5 votes came from one vendor (openai); extremization disabled, persona diversity only
  • 1 cited URL(s) failed verification and were dropped.

Council

5 personas on one model (openai/gpt-5.6-sol); other vendors were unavailable this run, so read this as one model's persona-averaged view, aggregated by log odds mean without extremization.

46%

grid and power economist · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

AI capex and RPO growth create many opportunities for another contract above $500M, but the resolution standard is unusually document-specific. Corporate filings commonly provide contract value or expected service timing; they rarely include an ISO queue identifier, while queue records often cannot be unambiguously cross-walked to the contract in the same disclosure. The “second” occurrence and 116-day window add hurdles. Partial credit remains plausible because a service date is substantially more likely than both legs. The multi-leg and >90-day ledger rates also support a forecast materially below 0.68.

47%

semiconductor supply chain analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

AI capex and RPO growth support additional contracts above $500M, but the documentary conjunction is difficult. Service dates often appear in PSAs or customer filings; ISO queue identifiers usually remain in separate interconnection records and may not be cross-walked in the same disclosure. Requiring a second qualifying contract within 116 days further reduces the full-hit chance. Partial credit materially supports the estimate because a service date alone is plausible. The multi-leg and >90-day ledger rates also argue below the forecaster’s 0.68.

44%

capital markets credit analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

The AI-capex and RPO backdrop supports additional contracts above $500M, and the deadline includes a quarterly filing cycle. However, the test requires a second qualifying contract and an unusually specific cross-walk: future service date plus ISO queue identifier in the same 8-K, PSA, or queue filing. Commercial disclosures commonly provide timing but omit or redact queue identifiers. Thus partial credit is materially more likely than a full hit. The conjunctive and >90-day ledger base rates near 0.4 are more relevant than the stronger capital-lens rate. This makes 0.68 too high despite favorable financing markets.

46%

superforecaster statistician · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

I use the 0.433 multi-leg base rate, which already reflects partial scoring; the disclosure and >90-day classes are similarly modest at 0.500 and 0.400. Exceptional capex and RPO growth supports more large AI contracts, modestly raising the outside-view estimate. But resolution requires a second contract above $500M plus two unusually specific details—a future service date and queue identifier—in a qualifying, cross-walked primary disclosure by a hard date. Contract occurrence is likelier than timely disclosure. The forecaster’s 0.60–0.69 bin realized only 0.556, indicating overconfidence, and this question is stricter than that average.

53%

geopolitics regulation analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Capital intensity supports additional large AI contracts: several issuers show exceptional RPO and capex growth. But the decisive documentary requirement is unusually strict. A second contract must exceed $500M and pair a future service date with an identifiable ISO queue position in the same cross-walkable disclosure. Companies commonly disclose timing without queue identifiers, while ISO filings may omit contract value or customer linkage. The relevant ledger rates are only 0.433 for multi-leg questions and 0.400 beyond 90 days, versus 0.708 for capital. Partial credit and one remaining quarterly filing cycle keep the expected outcome slightly above 0.5, but 0.68 appears too high.

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Cited by grid-and-power-economist: AI capex and RPO growth create many opportunities for another contract above $500M, but the resolution standard is unusually document-specific. Corporate filings commonly provide contract value or expected service timing; they rarely include an ISO queue identifier