AI CapEx Tracker: Who’s Spending What on Infrastructure in 2026

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AI CapEx Tracker: Who's Spending What on Infrastructure in 2026

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The Pattern
Data compiled from Microsoft's Frontier AI Dilemma and The Re-Engineering of Meta on The Business Engineer.
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AI infrastructure — as explored in the AI stack war reshaping big tech — spending has reached unprecedented levels. Here’s where the money is going.

FY2026 CapEx Comparison

CompanyCapExYoY ChangeFocus
Microsoft$120B++60%Azure AI, OpenAI infrastructure
Meta$72.2B+84%AI training, Reality Labs
Google$75B (est)+50%TPU clusters, Gemini training
Amazon$85B (est)+45%AWS expansion, Trainium

Total Big 4: $350B+ in single year

Infrastructure Commitments

CompanyCommitmentTimeframe
Microsoft$625B backlogMulti-year
OpenAI (Stargate)$500BThrough 2029
Meta$200B+ totalThrough 2028
Oracle (OpenAI)$300B5-year

Energy Commitments

CompanyPower StrategyCapacity
MetaNuclear secured6.6 GW
MicrosoftThree Mile Island + renewables~2 GW
GoogleSMR + renewables~1.5 GW
AmazonNuclear explorationTBD

Custom Silicon Investment

CompanyChipStatusPurpose
GoogleTPU v5ProductionGemini training
AmazonTrainium2ProductionAWS AI workloads
MetaMTIAProductionInference optimization
MicrosoftMaia 200ProductionAzure AI acceleration

The Pattern

Every hyperscaler is racing to:

  1. Secure power (energy is the new bottleneck)
  2. Build custom silicon (reduce NVIDIA dependency)
  3. Lock in compute commitments (guarantee capacity)

Data compiled from Microsoft’s Frontier AI Dilemma and The Re-Engineering of Meta on The Business Engineer.

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What is AI CapEx Tracker: Who's Spending What on Infrastructure in 2026?
AI infrastructure spending has reached unprecedented levels. Here's where the money is going.
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Data compiled from Microsoft's Frontier AI Dilemma and The Re-Engineering of Meta on The Business Engineer.
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The key components of AI CapEx Tracker: Who's Spending What on Infrastructure in 2026 include The Pattern. The Pattern: Data compiled from Microsoft's Frontier AI Dilemma and The Re-Engineering of Meta on The Business Engineer.

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