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Data centres and networking

The buildings, cooling and cabling that turn chips into one giant computer. The four biggest US tech companies plan to spend about $725B on this in 2026.

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2
Companies
26
Money flows
11

Building and running data centres

Developing, building, powering, cooling and running the buildings that house AI hardware.

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Nebius
NBIS Supplier

GPU cloud building its own campuses

Up to 1.2 GW campus under way in Missouri

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Equinix
EQIX

Operates data centres that link cloud and network providers, and leases whole campuses through xScale.

Revenue of $2.63B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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QTS Data Centers
Supplier

Data centre operator owned by Blackstone, building large hyperscale campuses in the US.

Blackstone bought QTS for about $10B in 2021

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Aligned Data Centers

Data centre developer with 51 campuses in the US, Latin America and Chile.

About $40B enterprise value (deal closed 21 July 2026)

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Eaton
ETN Supplier

Supplies switchgear, power distribution and backup power for data centre campuses.

Record revenue of $8.5B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Quanta Services
PWR Supplier

Builds the power lines and substations that connect data centres to the grid, plus data centre electrical work.

Revenue of about $9.6B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Schneider Electric
SU Supplier

Supplies power distribution, cooling and controls for data centre builds.

H1 2026 revenue of EUR 21.2B (six months to June 2026)

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Comfort Systems USA
FIX Supplier

Mechanical and electrical contractor that installs heating, cooling and power systems in data centres.

Revenue of about $3.3B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Digital Realty
DLR

data centre landlord

Record $1.9B of signed rent waiting to start

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EMCOR
EME Supplier

Electrical and mechanical contractor that builds and fits out data centres and other large buildings.

Revenue of about $5.15B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Fleet Data Centers

developer

Raised $4.6B of debt for one 230 MW Nevada campus

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nVent
NVT Supplier

Makes cooling, power enclosures and cable systems that go inside data halls.

Sales of $1.47B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Vertiv
VRT Supplier

power and cooling equipment

Quarterly sales of $3.3B (Q2 2026)

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Stack Infrastructure
Supplier

Data centre developer owned by Blue Owl, with campuses in Asia Pacific and the Americas.

Asia operations could sell for more than $30B (Bloomberg, May 2026, not finalised)

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Vantage Data Centers

Builds and runs large data centre campuses for cloud and AI tenants across several continents.

Exploring an IPO or sale at about $100B (Reuters, Aug 2026, reported)

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Networking and cables

The switches, lasers and cables that link thousands of chips so they behave as one computer.

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Broadcom
AVGO Supplier

networking chips and switches

AI chip revenue $16.7B in a quarter, up 221%

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Corning
GLW Supplier

Makes optical fibre, cable and connectivity products for data centres and telecoms.

Optical Communications sales of $2.07B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Cisco
CSCO Supplier

Makes switches, routers and AI networking systems sold to cloud providers and enterprises.

About $4B of AI infrastructure revenue in fiscal 2026 (year to July 2026)

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Lumentum
LITE Supplier

lasers and optical parts

Revenue up 90%. Nvidia invested $2B (Mar 2026)

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Marvell Technology
MRVL Supplier

Makes custom AI chips for large clouds, plus data centre connectivity chips.

$2.006B in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q2 2026), up 58%

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Amphenol
APH Supplier

Makes copper and optical connectors that link servers, switches and racks in data centres.

Sales of $8.76B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Arista Networks
ANET Supplier

switches for AI clusters

Revenue of $3.04B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Astera Labs
ALAB Supplier

Makes chips and switches that connect AI accelerators inside a server rack.

Revenue of $392.4M in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Ciena
CIEN Supplier

Makes optical networking gear that links data centres and carries traffic between them.

Revenue of $1.67B in fiscal Q3 2026 (quarter to 1 August 2026)

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Coherent
COHR Supplier

Makes optical transceivers and lasers that connect AI data centres, plus industrial lasers.

Datacenter and Communications revenue of $1.62B in fiscal Q4 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Credo
CRDO Supplier

high-speed cables and connection chips

$1.3B annual revenue

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The map updates three times a week.

241 companies across 25 areas, 62 money flows and 89 openings so far. New research lands every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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