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Follow the CAPEX: Q1 2026 Scoreboard
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)…
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Follow the CAPEX 2025 Retrospective
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…
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Platformonomics TGIF #114: January 30, 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 It’s that most magical time of the year: HyperCAPEX season! Meta and Microsoft are in; Amazon and Google report next week. Full annual retrospective to follow (last…