capital spending

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When businesses cannot estimate energy costs with any conviction, they begin delaying capital spending, reducing expansion plans and preserving cash.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Denyer writes that U.S. capital spending on computers and peripherals, including data center components, surged to levels not witnessed since the dotcom era of 1998-2000.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

Goldman Sachs goes a step further, forecasting cumulative capital spending of nearly $7.6 trillion by 2031, a tally that includes compute, data center and power needs.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

The capital spending planned this year by Microsoft, Amazon.com, Google parent Alphabet and Meta Platforms as the AI race heats up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Consequently the successful competitor in the race for supremacy develops productivity, accumulates wealth, expands capital spending, enlarges the scope of the arts, thereby augmenting the city's attractiveness to business enterprise and migrants from the hinterland.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott