Object Record / FI-EPH-037
The Compute-Cocaine Crossover
digital / JPEG, 1600×1024 / data-visualization chart / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a dark-field line chart captioned "The Compute-Cocaine Crossover: $/kg, 2024–2030E," plotting price per kilogram on a logarithmic axis from 2024 through 2030. It sets NVIDIA NVL72 compute — an actual line plus a SemiAnalysis-attributed NVL72-class projection — against US wholesale cocaine, cannabis flower, fentanyl, and gold, and marks the point where the compute curve crosses above the drug curves. Burned-in annotations cite figures such as gold at $138k/kg, a GB300 NVL72 at roughly $5M / 1,580 kg, and a Vera Rubin NVL72 at roughly $2.8M. The chart's data, its projections, and every attribution shown on it are reproduced as found and are not verified here; it is admitted as a curio, not as a source. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded; the exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / JPEG, 1600×1024 / data-visualization chart / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 1 reference
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-037-compute-cocaine-crossover.jpegOpen local asset