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ReportedCapital$380 billionA new NBER working paper modeling the AI investment boom finds the five largest US technology firms' combined capital expenditure already reached, in 2025 alone,NBER Working Paper 35290June 2026- PrimaryCapitalLoan margin: SOFR+2.25% to SOFR+5.50%CoreWeave's cost of AI-infrastructure debt widened sharply in five months — its August 2026 delayed-draw term loan priced at SOFR plus 5.50%, versus SOFR plus 2.25% on its $8.5 billion March 2026 facilityCoreWeave (SEC 8-K)Aug 2026
- PrimaryCapital$30.12 billionMeta's most recently reported quarterly purchases of property and equipment reachedMeta, SEC EDGAR (XBRL filings)Q2 2026
- ReportedCapitalKRW 43.198 trillion, up 35.1% year-over-yearSamsung and SK hynix, racing each other to qualify next-generation HBM for AI accelerators, ramped up spending on chip plants in the first half of 2026. TrendForce, citing the companies' own semi-annual filings, puts their combined semiconductor facility investment atTrendForceH1 2026
- PrimaryCapital$2.15 billion in 6.750% notes to fund 200 megawatts of IT load at Applied Digital's Polaris Forge 2 campusApplied Digital's financing subsidiary priced new debt to build out its newest AI data-centre campus, Polaris Forge 2 in Harwood, North Dakota. The offering raisedApplied DigitalMarch 2026
- EstimateCapital$800B 2026 hyperscaler capexCombined capital expenditure by Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Alphabet is projected to exceed $800 billion in 2026, surpassing the five companies' combined operating cash flow for the first time, a new NBER working paper on financing the AI buildout findsNBER (Van Nieuwerburgh)Oct 2026
- EstimateCapital3.63% of GDP, versus 2.24% for the railroads of 1870–1890A Brookings Papers draft by Columbia's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh projects that the US AI build-out of 2025 to 2032 will absorb, every year,Van Nieuwerburgh, Brookings Papers (conference draft)Sept 2026
- PrimaryCapitalAlibaba's Q1 FY2027 capex: RMB67.68 billion (US$9.975 billion), up 75% YoY from RMB38.68 billionAlibaba is pouring more cash into AI and cloud infrastructure than any prior quarter. Capital expenditure for the three months ended 30 June 2026 rose 75% year-over-year toAlibaba (SEC 6-K)Q1 FY2027, quarter ended 30 Jun 2026
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