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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Building and running data centres
Developing, building, powering, cooling and running the buildings that house AI hardware.
GPU cloud building its own campuses
Up to 1.2 GW campus under way in Missouri
Open profileOperates 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)
Open profileData centre operator owned by Blackstone, building large hyperscale campuses in the US.
Blackstone bought QTS for about $10B in 2021
Open profileData centre developer with 51 campuses in the US, Latin America and Chile.
About $40B enterprise value (deal closed 21 July 2026)
Open profileSupplies switchgear, power distribution and backup power for data centre campuses.
Record revenue of $8.5B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)
Open profileBuilds 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)
Open profileSupplies power distribution, cooling and controls for data centre builds.
H1 2026 revenue of EUR 21.2B (six months to June 2026)
Open profileMechanical 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)
Open profiledata centre landlord
Record $1.9B of signed rent waiting to start
Open profileElectrical 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)
Open profiledeveloper
Raised $4.6B of debt for one 230 MW Nevada campus
Open profileMakes cooling, power enclosures and cable systems that go inside data halls.
Sales of $1.47B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)
Open profilepower and cooling equipment
Quarterly sales of $3.3B (Q2 2026)
Open profileData 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)
Open profileBuilds 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)
Open profileNetworking and cables
The switches, lasers and cables that link thousands of chips so they behave as one computer.
networking chips and switches
AI chip revenue $16.7B in a quarter, up 221%
Open profileMakes 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)
Open profileMakes 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)
Open profilelasers and optical parts
Revenue up 90%. Nvidia invested $2B (Mar 2026)
Open profileMakes custom AI chips for large clouds, plus data centre connectivity chips.
$2.006B in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q2 2026), up 58%
Open profileMakes 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)
Open profileswitches for AI clusters
Revenue of $3.04B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)
Open profileMakes chips and switches that connect AI accelerators inside a server rack.
Revenue of $392.4M in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)
Open profileMakes 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)
Open profileMakes 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)
Open profilehigh-speed cables and connection chips
$1.3B annual revenue
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