Big Tech’s $630B AI data-center spending surge is squeezing chips, electricians — and investor patience
Amazon.com sketched out a $200 billion capital spending plan for 2026, with the bulk aimed at assets like data centers and servers. The stock fell 9% on Friday. That spike in outlays is stirring up echoes of the dot-com era’s infrastructure binge in the early 2000s—an effort that gave birth to the current internet but ended up handing backers only modest gains.
