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Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email 50-50 chance of a newsletter next week. Might be too busy preparing for the Cleveland visit. Still waiting to hear whether Seattle’s Mayor and Washington’s Governor are…

All four hyperCAPEX companies reporting the same day makes for a big day in the world’s biggest game! Our four hyperCAPEX companies spent over $133 billion on CAPEX in Q1, collectively up 4% from Q4 and up 72% from a year ago. 2025 Actual CAPEX 2026 Guidance CAPEX (Jan ’26) 2026 Guidance CAPEX (Apr ’26)…

Tl;dr CAPEX Go Up! Up Up Up! Previous retrospectives: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 plus earlier/other CAPEX musings. This is my tenth annual CAPEX (capital expenditures) retrospective. The fascination began earlier, as an asset-oblivious software guy confronting an alien lifeform of spending on physical property, plant and equipment. CAPEX separated the…
