-
Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
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 Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
-
Follow the CAPEX: Q2 2026 Scoreboard
Our four hyperCAPEX companies collectively spent almost $172 billion on CAPEX in Q2, up 29% from last quarter and up 77% from a year ago. This quarter’s spend is more than they collectively spent for the entire year of 2023 ($155 billion), and their cumulative lifetime CAPEX spend is over $1.9 trillion. At the halfway…
-
Platformonomics TGIF #135: July 24, 2026
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 Service resumed! News Google CAPEX – Q2 2026 A good start! (Though Wall Street seems to disagree). Google CFO commentary: CapEx was $44.9 billion in the second…