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Capital spending attributed to AI build-out as it propagates from accelerator demand into semiconductor and electronics equipment orders.
Voss Capital's Value Fund returned 22.4% net in Q2 2026, 0.9 points ahead of the Russell 2000's 21.5%. With the master fund 100.6% delta-adjusted net long on June 30, we think the small-cap tape explains most of that gain.
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Jefferies' Chris Wood says US hyperscalers' $695 billion of guided 2026 capex looks unsustainable as cheap Chinese open-source models win share. He blames a slump in the price of AI output, with demand intact, while guidance climbs toward $870 billion for 2027.
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LSEG expects US chipmakers' third-quarter profit growth to slow to about 136% from 158% while S&P 500 earnings rise about 31%. Analysts have raised that quarter's forecast at half their earlier pace since July, so the AI earnings carrying the index are losing speed.
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Andreessen Horowitz puts hyperscaler capex near $780 billion this year and tech at roughly 55% of US capital spending. Its charts also show free cash flow being squeezed, and the hyperscalers are relying more on debt to fund new chip capacity.
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SemiAnalysis's count of more than 1,000 Chinese datacenters puts the operating fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA or the rest of Asia. For listed landlords such as GDS and VNET, the open question moves from how big the market is to how much rent its largest tenants will pay.
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Goldman Sachs expects the five biggest US hyperscalers to spend about $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure in 2027, 50% more than in 2026. The forecast is $100 billion above consensus, and the bank lists power, labor and memory chips as the limits on building it.
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Every net dollar goes to AI infrastructure, three days after quarterly profit fell 75%. For anyone buying cloud AI, that changes which number tells you whether capacity arrives.
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Real spending on information processing equipment reached $752 billion against $748 billion of residential investment. The gap is half a percent, and the six-company capex forecast that supports the concentration argument is a separate series.
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CoinShares marks stabilised data centre capacity at $27m a megawatt and energised mining capacity at $3m, and the conversion cost in between explains why Core Scientific, Keel, Cipher and IREN are walking away from hashrate.
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Amazon's filing blamed the pace of change in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and it priced the decision itself: about $0.7 billion off 2025 operating income, with another $0.6 billion of accelerated depreciation.
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Oracle put ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI's Codex in front of about 160,000 employees in April, and 80 percent were using them within three months. Then the bills arrived and, the CIO said, surprised the company.
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Build times of two to three years make an October start the last one that can open before 2028, and JPMorgan already counts more than 60 percent of planned 2027 capacity as unbuilt. The scarce input is a permitted site with power.
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The €13 billion Google is putting into Finnish data centres in 2027 and 2028 comes with a two-decade electricity contract that Fortum says will support its programme to extend the Loviisa reactors' operating life.
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Oracle's first fiscal quarter turned 30% revenue growth into a 60% jump in net income, and the same three months consumed more cash in capital investment than the company collected in sales.
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The deal is the largest slice of more than $33bn Microsoft has committed to specialist GPU clouds. It leaves the fleet, the debt behind it and the 18-month depreciation clock on someone else's balance sheet.
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PwC puts global AI infrastructure spending at $31.6 trillion through 2050, but its own annual path compounds at only about 3.4 percent a year, which makes the near-term dependence sharper than the headline total does.
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PwC's Oxford Economics modelling puts $31.6 trillion into AI infrastructure by 2050 and raises equipment to 93% of data centre capex, which is the figure that decides how any of these sites get financed.
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With 2,059 more US data centers planned and three-quarters of Americans opposed to having one near them, local consent is now the part of the buildout that committed capital cannot put on a calendar.
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The rating agency reads the gap as cash flow rather than ambition, but its own report ranks chip access as the tighter constraint, and the June quarter run rate already sits above the 2026 forecast.
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PwC has US data center spending more than doubling by 2027. Deloitte's posting data shows crews arriving from outside the trades, and mentoring capacity is quietly the input that decides the schedule.
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