capital spending

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A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

In an analysis published Thursday, Perkins notes that there was a time last year when investors began to worry about the sustainability of AI capital spending, asking whether the potential returns justify the vast expenditures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

He said the market reacted in part to uncertainty about the extent to which tech companies are going to push to accelerate capital spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“Sentiment has troughed,” said Morgan Stanley equity analyst Brian Nowak, citing lower visibility and confidence in its ability to turn AI investments into shareholder returns and its staggering rate of capital spending.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 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